William Hole

William Hole was an early and fine English engraver who worked in Londun from about 1600 to 1646. He is especially noted for being the first in England to engrave music upon copperplates.

He produced a number of fine county maps, working with William Kip. They took Saxton's and, where possible, Norden's surveys as their basis, and composed entirely original maps from them.

Hole also engraved the stange maps for Michael Drayton's poem Poly-Olbion, which was issued in two parts in 1612 and 1622 respectively. Little else is known about the life of William Hole.