Emanuel Bowen (f1714-1767), map and print seller, was engraver to George II and to Louis XV of France and worked in London from about 1714 onwards producing some of the best and most attractive maps of the century. He had plans for completing a major County Atlas but, finding the task beyond his means, joined with Thomas Kitchin to publish The Large English Atlas. Many of the maps were issued individually from 1749 onwards and the whole atlas was not finally completed until 1760. With one or two exceptions they were the largest maps of the counties to appear up to that time (690 x 510mm) and are unusual in that the blank areas round each map are filled with historical and topographical detail which makes fascinating and amusing reading. The atlas was re-issued later in reduced size. Apart from his county maps and atlases of different parts of the world he also issued (with John Owen fl. 1720) a book of road maps based, as was usual at that time, on Ogilby but again incorporating his own style of historical and heraldic detail. In spite of his royal appointments and apparent prosperity he died in poverty and his son, who carried on the business, was no more fortunate and died in a Clerkenwell workhouse in 1790.
- 1714 Maps of the Continents
- 1720 (with John Owen) Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improved (small 4t0) Numerous editions to 1764 in varying sizes
- 1744-47 A Complete System of Geography
- 1744-48 Maps for Complete Collection of Voyages (Harris)
- 1751 Complete Atlas or Distinct View of the Known World
- 1755-60 (with Thomas Kitchin) The Large English Atlas (average size 690 x 510 mm) 1763, 1767, 1777, 1785, 1787 Further editions and enlargements
- 1758 (with John Gibson) Atlas Minimus (24mo) 1774 Re-issued
- 1762 (with Thomas Kitchin) The Royal English Atlas (average size 215 x 315 mm) 1778, 1780 Re-issued 1794-1828 Re-issued as The English Atlas
- 1763 (with Benjamin Martin fl. 1759-63) The Natural History of England
- 1766 Universal History of the World
- 1767 (with Thomas Bowen) Atlas Anglicanus (average size 225 x 320 mm) 1777 Re-issued
- 1777 (Thomas Bowen) The World showing the Discoveries of Capt. Cook and other circumnavigators
- 1784 (Thomas Bowen) Maps in Rapin’s History of England
