Mercator's Map of Southwestern England & Wales Date of Publication_1937 Horwood’s plan is a landmark

Horwood’s plan is a landmark in London mapping on a number of counts

Natesan & Co

Janssonius was his son-in-law

The author of ‘Boxiana’ and of the hugely successful ‘Life in London’

the first English Sea Atlas based upon a systematic personal survey

Mercator's Map of Southwestern England & Wales Date of Publication_1937 Horwood’s plan is a landmarkThis is the southwestern sheet of Mercators five regional maps of England and Wales; Janssonius revised the decorative elements in the 1630s, but the series was superseded by the British volume of the Atlas Novus in the 1640s. The Hondius Janssonius map publishing business traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator. Mercator coined the term atlas (after the wise, mythical, Mauritanian king rather than the weary titan) and the original Mercator Atlas