Cumberland Maps

24x32 cm

FIRST SERIES OF COLOUR PRINTED COUNTY MAPS

CUMBERLAND
W. Hughes.
LONDON. VIRTUE & C^O.

First published in The National Gazetteer; a topographical dictionary of the British Islands. Compiled from the latest and best sources, and illustrated with a complete county atlas, and numerous maps. Virtue & Co., 1863-1868. This was a publication issued in parts, the complete work being issued from 1868. The latest and best sources quoted were the maps produced by the Ordnance Survey (Old series One Inch). The plates were never used for direct intaglio printing and the lithographic print has been overprinted in colours, the first series of county maps to be colour printed.

The work was re-issued a number of times under various titles until 1886.
This example of the map of Cumberland was published c.1870. Imprint tight to paper edge.