Hertfordshire Maps

31x25 cm

HERTFORDSHIRE.
W.Hughes
LONDON VIRTUE & CO.
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. London, Virtue & Co., 1863-1868. This was a publication issued in parts, the complete work being issued from 1868. The latest and best sources quoted in the title 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 is overprinted in brown and were the first series of county maps to be colour printed.
The work was re-issued a number of times with alterations to the transfers until 1870 and in A new county atlas of Great Britain and Ireland…by W. Hughes London, Virtue & Co., 1873 and A new parliamentary and county atlas…by W. Hughes, Esq., F.R.G.S. and others…London J.S.Virtue and Co., 1886.
This example is from the 1868 or 1870 edition of The national gazetteer.
Hodson Printed Maps of Hertfordshire ref. 114 C.