About Ann Lea
Lived 1661 – 1728 (aged 66–67). Ann Lea was a British printer.
Ann Lea, sometimes "Anne", (1661–1728) was a British lithographer, map and globe seller and publisher in London. She prepared maps for several works including Christopher Saxton's The Traveller's Guide being the best map of the Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales (20 sheets) and Robert Morden's A new mapp of the West-Indies, or the islands of America 1702.
Lea operated her business at the Atlas & Hercules, Cheapside, near Friday Street from 1701 to 1716 and at the Atlas & Hercules, over against Salisbury Court, in Fleet Street 1720 to 1725. She died in 1728 around the age of 73. Her stock and plates were auctioned in 1730, with many acquired by John and Thomas Bowles and George Willdey.
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British lithographer
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Ann Lea was born in 1661.
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