Derbyshire Maps

18x24 cm

DERBYSHIRE
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.
Joshua Archer (c.1792-1863), Engraver, cartographer and copperplate printer, was born in Barnstaple in Devon. His first recorded work as an engraver was a map of Scotland for Robert Wilkinson in 1814. He was declared bankrupt in 1835, imprisoned for debt in 1845, but on the 1861 census, he is recorded as a map and chart engraver aged 69, living in Islington with his wife Jane, a son, John, also a map and chart engraver, Albert Archer, map and chart draughtsman, Albert’s wife Elizabeth and their three children. 
Original hand colour. With a number of railways added, this example was published 1860