Add MS 78629 A

A. Map of Deptford by an unidentified cartographer; 1623 (date below scale bar), with John Evelyn's extensive autograph additions and annotations concerning the increase in population, the parish clergy, the origin of some of the buildings, etc., including his sketch of Sayes Court house, aft. 1698. Pen and ink on paper. Compass rose in lefthand corner (east at top). Scale bar: 50 perches (825 feet): 6.5 inches [1: 1523]. Bounded by Deptford Creek (top), River Thames (left), open fields, including `Mr Speights Land’ (right), Sayes Court (bottom). Houses are shown pictorially and the owners of some are named; docks, watergates, wharves, some roads and fields are identified and in some cases acreages given. Mutilated apparently by damage from damp, afterwards repaired and rebacked, with some loss of plan and text in the upper right quarter. With a label on the verso by Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart., `Old Map of Deptford 1623’. Engraved by `H. Mutlow, York Street’, with Evelyn’s annotations transcribed, for Nathan Dews, The History of Deptford (1884); a copy of this engraving with a pencil endorsement by W. G. Hiscock is included. Beal EvJ 117. Formerly Evelyn MS 153.

Paper. 521 x 730mm.