Channel, Scilly and other small islands.

30x45 cm

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
ALDERNEY
GUERNSEY AND SARK
JERSEY
LONDON, PUBLISHED BY CASSELL, PETTER & GALPIN. LA BELLE SAUVAGE YARD, LUDGATE HILL, E.C.
Lithograph printed map 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. 

The map is unsigned, but other maps in the series were engraved by Edward Weller (1819-1884). John James Dower (1825-1901), or Benjamin Rees Davies (1789?-1872).

Some light additional creasing but still a 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.