The first state of John Speed’s map of Scotland

A rightly famous map of Scotland, with an inset of the Orkneys. The vignette portraits are James VI of Scotland (also James I of England), his wife Anne and their two sons, Henry, Prince of Wales, and Charles (later Charles I). On the reverse is a letterpress text: ''The Type of the Famous Kingdome of Scotland, With a Generall Description of Sundry Things Remarkeable Therein''. In 1652 the Puritan ascendancy made it politic to re-engrave the plate: away went the Royal family, to be replaced by costume vignettes of a 'Scotch' (i.e. lowland) man & woman and their wilder 'Highland' neighbours. This is an example of the uncommon second edition, which was begun in 1614 (two years after the first edition) but not completed until 1616, presumably delayed by the death of the original printer William Hall.