Emanuel Bowen’s compact county maps appeared between 1757 and 1761 in The General Magazine of Arts & Sciences, where geography took its place among the useful knowledge offered to mid-eighteenth-century readers. Published in London by W. Owen, they cover Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire, with a chart of the Strait of Gibraltar taking the reader to southern Europe. The Middlesex sheet includes London, Westminster and Southwark.