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British Isles. Lafreri (Antonio, school of), Britannia Insula quae duo Regna Continet Angliam et Scotiam cum Hibernia Adiacente, Rome, circa 1556, uncoloured engraved map (usually credited to Claudi Duchetti) the title in block text to the upper left, the map is based on George Lily's earlier map of 1546, two blocks of descriptive text, right-hand vertical margin trimmed with loss to the printed margin, skillfully replaced in facsimile, the horizontal margins trimmed to the neat line with the 'Septentrio' and 'Meridies' cardinals excised from the margins and tipped on to the map, 485 x 350 mm (Quantity: 1) R. V. Tooley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, number 60a. The second state of this map with 'Mare Hisranicum' corrected to 'Mare Hispanicum'. Rare. Ashley Baynton Williams: The reason that Lafreri's name is now used as an umbrella term for the school is because he issued a catalogue of his stock in 1572, entitled 'Indice Delle Tavole Moderne Di Geografia Della Maggior Parte Del Mondo ...'. This catalogue is very similar, both in title and contents, to bound collections of maps with an engraved title Tavole Moderne Di Geografia De La Maggior Parte Del Mondo Di Diversi Autori. Accordingly bound collections with the engraved title were attributed to Lafreri, and thence his name became associated with the group as a whole. Some writers have attributed the title to Duchetti, but there seems no good reason to challenge Lafreri's role.