c1767 - ' An ACCURATE Modern Map of ENGLAND and WALES drawm from the latest Surveys corrected & improved by the Best Authorities / London Printed for Robt Sayer at the golden Buck in Fleet Street and Carington Bowles next the Chapter House in St Pauls Church Yard '

A fine original antique map of England & Wales by Robert Sayer with hand colouring. 
Good condition with the margin at the top very tight but clear, measuring approximately 43cm x 48cm including the margins. Blank on verso. There has been some historical minor strengthening on the reverse along some of the folds (as issued), for preservation purposes.

Robert Sayer (1725–1794) was a leading publisher and seller of prints, maps and maritime charts in Georgian Britain. He was based near the Golden Buck on Fleet Street in London.
Sayer organised the engraving of paintings by some leading artists of the day, most importantly Johan Zoffany RA, and sold prints from the engravings. In this way he helped to secure Zoffany’s international reputation. Sayer and the artist became longstanding friends as well as business associates. In 1781 Zoffany painted Robert Sayer in an important ‘conversation piece’. 'The Sayer family of Richmond' depicts Robert Sayer, his son, James, from his first marriage, and his second wife, Alice Longfield (née Tilson). Behind the family group is the substantial villa on Richmond Hill overlooking the River Thames, built for Sayer between 1777 and 1780 to the designs of William Eves, a little-known architect and property developer. From 1794, after Robert Sayer’s death, the house was the country residence for three years of the Duke of Clarence (later King William IV) and Mrs Jordan, and their three eldest (of ten) children. The third child was born at the house. Having fallen into disrepair, the house was demolished in 1970 when it was unknown that it had been built for Sayer and that it had subsequently been the home of a future king of Great Britain.