Buckinghamshire Maps

19x25 cm

Buckinghamshire.
Eng.d by Gray & Son.
Pub.^d by Arch.^d Fullarton & C.^o 

Steel engraving by Gray & Son first published in Bell's New and Comprehensive Gazetteer in 1833. The text for the gazetteer was largely copied from Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1831. In 1839 Lewis obtained an injunction against Bell for plagiarism and the work was withdrawn. Archibald Fullarton, the publisher of Bell's Gazetteer, republished the maps with new text in The Parliamentary Gazetteer from 1840 until 1849. Most of the maps in the series were copied from Sidney Hall's maps published in an earlier topographical dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton published in 1831.
Robert Gray (1771?-1848), Scottish engraver, lithographer and copperplate printer, trading from Glasgow as "Gray & Todd" between 1804 and 1806 and as "Gray & Son" from 1825 to 1848, initially with his son John, and later with his son James who continued the business after Robert Gray's death until at least 1856.
Vignette of Eton College.
London to Birmingham Railway added giving an issue date between 1840 and 1843.
Occasional light spotting but otherwise a good hand coloured example.