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It stands among the oldest and most significant printed maps to depict all of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland together on a single sheet, produced at a time when accurate, comprehensive mapping of the entire British Isles was still a relatively new achievement. Speed drew on the surveying work of his predecessors and contemporaries to compile a map that could show the whole of the isles at once, rather than treating each nation separately, making it an important single-sheet reference for the geography of early seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland as a whole. 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