Buckinghamshire Maps

31x43 cm

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
By B.R.DAVIES FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY.
Drawn & Engraved by B.R.Davies.
PUBLISHED BY CASSELL, PETTER & GALPIN. LA BELLE SAUVAGE YARD, LUDGATE HILL, E.C.

Lithograph printed map engraved by Benjamin Rees Davies (1789?-1872) first published in The Weekly Dispatch  between 1856 and 1862. The maps were also published as loose sheets and, when the series was complete, in The Dispatch Atlas from 1863. The publishers Cassell Petter and Galpin acquired the plates publishing them as loose sheets from 1864 and in Cassell's Illustrated family paper and Cassell's British Atlas in 1867. By 1869, the firm of G. W. Bacon had acquired the plates and published them in a number of titles for over forty years.

Benjamin Rees Davies (1789?-1872), map and writing engraver, cartographer, publisher and printer. Born in London about 1879, he was baptised as an adult July 1828 at St.Andrew Holborn, giving his date of birth as 1785. He was apprenticed to engraver John Lodge (fl.1794-1823) 3 August 1803, described as the son of David Rees Davies of Holborn, tailor. One of his first engraved county maps was John Bryant’s map of Hertfordshire of 1822 acclaimed by bibliographer Donald Hodson as “one of the most beautifully executed maps of the county ever produced”. He is well known for engraving and publishing a large number of maps of London. He died at his home in George Street, Euston Square on 16th Dec 1872.

A very good hand coloured example from the fourth lithographic transfer, with statistical information in typeset text transferred to the lithographic plate, published in Cassell's British Atlas...London Cassell, Petter & Galpin 1867.