Cornwall Maps

23x18 cm

ARCHER /DUGDALE. WASH COLOUR.
 

CORNWALL
Drawn & Engraved by J.Archer, Pentonville, London.

First published in Curiosities of Great Britain, England and Wales Delineated…by Thomas Dugdale by L.Tallis in 1842. The work was re-issued a number of times until 1860. The maps also appeared in The Universal English Dictionary…by the Rev. James Barclay and finally in Tallis's topographical dictionary of England & Wales in 1860.
This example is from the 1858 edition of Dugdales Curiosities in original wash hand colour. Offsetting* from the fold.

* Offsetting. A "ghostly" mirror image caused by evaporation from ink when a map is folded or stacked on other maps before the ink is completely dry.