Historical Maps

82x66 cm

MAP OF | BRITISH & ROMAN | YORKSHIRE | BY | CHARLES NEWTON, M.A. | OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM
DRAWN & ENGRAVED | BY | W. HUGHES, F.R.G.S. | LONDON | MDCCCXLVII 
Drawn & Engraved by W. Hughes, 6 Brook St., Holborn, London. 
London: Published by the Archaelogical Institute of Great Britain & Ireland, 1847.
Pasted label on back of map and slipcase reads:
MAP OF BRITISH AND ROMAN YORKSHIRE, PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CENTRAL COMMITEE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING AT YORK IN 1846. BY CHARLES NEWTON, M.A. OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM.
Prcie to Subscribing members of the Institute, 5s. To non-Subscribers, 7s 6d.
To be purchased at the Office of the Institute, 12, Haymarket, London. 

Charles Thomas Newton KCB 1816-1894), British Archaeologist educated at Shrewsbury Schooll, and Christ Church Oxford graduating B.A. in 1837 and M.A. in 1840. Entered the British Museum as assistant in the department of antiquities in 1840. Known for the discovery of the remains of the mausoleum of Helicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. He was made KCB in 1887.

Drawn and engraved by William Hughes (1818? -1876). Born in Westminster about 1818. He was elected FRGS in 1838 and was teacher of Geography and map drawing at St. John's College, Battersea from 1840 and later taught at the Church of England Metropolitan traing College, Highbury, at Kings' College, London, at Queens College Harley Street, and became professor of Geography at Kings College. He catalogued maps and charts at the British Museum 1841-1843 where he presumably met Charles Newton and collaborated on the production of this map.
 
The map is listed in Whitaker Printed Maps of Yorkshire but the imprint has William Hughes address as Aldine Chambers, Hughes is recorded at this address from 1851, this map has the Brook Street address which he occupied from 1847 to 1851.

Lithograph printed map segmented and pasted on linen with original hand colouring to key features.Decorated card covers in green cloth slipase. Covers and slipcase with pasted label as above. 
Map in very good condition some slight remains of erased pencil notes and marks  here and there. Slipcase good with only light fraying to cloth at corners.
An uncommon map.