Essex Maps

43x31 cm

ESSEX
BY B.R. DAVIES. FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY.
MACLURE, MACDONALD & MACGREGOR'S, STEAM LITHO:MACHINES, LONDON.
LONDON, PUBLISHED BY CASSELL, PETTER & GALPIN. LA BELLE SAUVAGE YARD, LUDGATE HILL, E.C.

Lithograph printed map engraved by Benjamin Rees Davies (c.1789-1872) 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.

Two small scuffs to the paper below Malden and Halstead otherwise a very good hand coloured example showing the two parliamentary divisions of the county, with statistical information in typeset text transferred to the lithographic plate, from Cassell's British Atlas...London Cassell, Petter & Galpin 1867.