John Senex

An English map of Ireland.

• John Senex (English).
• Ireland Corrected from the Latest Observations Divided into its Provinces, Counties and Baronies. Shewing the Principal Roads, and the Distances of Places, in Common reputed Miles. by Inspection Where Barracks are Erected &c. By John Senex F.R.S.
• Fleetstreet, London: John Senex F.R.S., the Globe against St Dunstans Church: 1712 (-1728).
• Includes inset map of the British Isles.
• Double-page engraved map on two sheets joined, with full contemporary hand-coloring, decorative title cartouche surmounted by a harp with a crown above, key table and scale bars.
• This work is presented framed.

John Senex (1678-1740) was one of the foremost mapmakers in England in the early eighteenth century. He was also a surveyor, globemaker and geographer. As a young man, he was apprenticed to Robert Clavell, a bookseller. He worked with several mapmakers over the course of his career, including Jeremiah Seller and Charles Price. In 1728, Senex was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, a rarity for mapmakers. The Fellowship reflects his career-long association as engraver to the Society and publisher of maps by Edmund Halley, among other luminaries. He is best known for his English Atlas (1714), which remained in print until the 1760s. After his death in 1740, his widow, Mary, carried on the business until 1755. Thereafter, his stock was acquired by William Herbert and Robert Sayer (maps) and James Ferguson (globes).