FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE of Emanuel Bowen’s Britannia Depicta. Bowen (1693?-1767) was one of the most prominent figures in English cartography during the middle of the eighteenth century. In 1720, he co-published with John Owen the Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv’d. It was an instant success running to numerous editions over the next 50 years. Hodson, in his detailed study of the atlas concluded that there were six different editions bearing a title page dated 1720. The first can however, be broken into three further variants, only two of which Hodson identified. This is an example of the second (first recorded) issue with the variant coat of arms on p. 94, altered to reflect those of Newton in Hampshire, not Newton in Lancashire. The first two variants both lack the numbers to the Rapes on the map of Sussex itself, they are shown in the key only. Provenance: manuscript notation of 'E: Bertie' dated 1720 on front free endpaper; private English collection. Bennett (1996) pp. 40-1; Harley (1970); Hodson (1984-97) 149; Kingsley (1982) 23.1; Shirley (2004) T.Bow 1a issue not cited.