Hertfordshire Maps

10x6 cm

HERTFORDSHIRE
London Published by R Miller, 24, Old Fish Street.
Miniature map first issued in sets of cards c.1819 by Thomas Crabb. They were also issued as a set of cards c.1822 by Hinton, by Darton also c.1822 and by Hodgson c.1825. All these playing card issues are extremely rare. This first atlas issue was published by Robert Miller in Miller’s new miniature atlas containing a complete set of county maps… London (1821). William Darton acquired the plates, publishing them in Darton’s new miniature atlas containing a complete set of county maps… London (1822) & (1825).  The maps are best known, printed by lithographic transfer with the addition of vignettes of local landmarks and industry, published in Rev. Samuel Clark’s Georgian school atlas Reuben Ramble's Travels Through the Counties Of England in 1845 & 1850.
This uncommon example is from the first atlas issue of 1821 published by Robert Miller. 
Hodson Printed Maps of Hertfordshire ref. 81(i)