Following the success of the earlier published ‘Large English Atlas’, Bowen and Kitchin undertook a smaller version entitled the ‘Royal English Atlas’. It was not a commercial success and as such is much rarer than its predecessor. Indeed the first edition is only known in 6 examples. The imprint below the map indicates that this map is a first state example as only issued in the first edition. The imprint bears a wonderful collection of the cartographers of the day ‘Printed for Mess [Elizabeth] Bakewell & [Henry] Parker, and J[ohn] Bowles & Son [Carington Bowles], T[homas] Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, J[ohn] Ryall and R[obert] Sayer in Fleet Street, T[homas] Kitchin on Holborn Hill, & H[enry] Overton without Newgate’. A good example of an extremely rare map KNOWN IN ONLY 6 EXAMPLES. Provenance ex Phillips auction 20 September 1984 lot 408. Hodson 233 p. 26 state 1; Quixley (1966) no. 23; Shirley BL T.Bow-4a; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).