tracing historical urban changes
The matte finish highlights district color coding and ensures the map’s references to foreign concessions and local wards remain sharply visible
beyond its aesthetic charms
Blaeu had inherited his father Willem's publishing house and its stock of English plates
Old Map of Suffolk in 1844 by Samuel Lewis - Ipswich, Woodbridge, Bury St Edmunds Size:70x100 cm - UNFRAMED tracing historical urban changesDrawn to accompany Samuel Lewis's celebrated Topographical Dictionary of England, this map of Suffolk dates from 1844 and captures the county in fine, hand coloured detail during the years before the railways and industry transformed rural England. Ipswich, the county town on the River Orwell, sits at the heart of the sheet, while Bury St Edmunds, Woodbridge, Sudbury and Lowestoft, England's most easterly town, are all marked along with the smaller