A Travelling County Atlas: with All the Railroads Accurately Laid Down and Coloured, and Carefully Corrected to the End of the Last Session

Hall (Sidney).   Forty-six hand-coloured steel-engraved maps (as called for in the list of contents), the majority being 27.6 x 20.8 cm. and folded once, while those of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Yorkshire are 39.2 x 26.2 cm. and folded twice Chapman and Hall,  1847 New Edition, revised    Original full dark green roan with a tuck-in protective flap over the fore-edge, lettered in gilt on one cover Roan marked and worn and long split to fold of tuck-in over the fore-edge, some damp to preliminaries and end-papers, but the maps are in excellent condition throughout, though detaching from the gutta percha “perfect” binding. Contemporary ownership signature on the front free end-paper and some travel notes in the same hand to the versos of a few maps, but without show through.  Sidney Hall pioneered the use of steel engraving in the production of maps of great clarity and detail and he was working on this set of quarto county maps when he died in 1831. The work was completed by his widow, Selina, an equally skilled map maker and engraver. It is interesting to note that many of the railway lines added for this, apparently less common revision, were no more than projects and were never actually constructed.  

Price: £380