Isle of Wight

23x16 cm

ISLE OF WIGHT
London Edwards 12 Ave Maria Lane
 
Woodblock engraved map by Joshua Archer. The engraved woodblock was inked with a roller without working the ink into the engraved cuts thereby printing with a white line on a black ground. Published in weekly parts in The Guide to Knowledge edited by W Pinnock. The guide was re-issued in 1838 and some of the maps appeared in 1844 in (an incomplete) Descriptive county atlas of England and Wales by Groombridge Shepherd & Sutton in a revised state with a decorative border using coloured inks. The printing method was not popular for topographic maps and was not used again for English county maps. The final use of these maps was by Thomas Johnson printed more conventionally by lithographic transfer (from the Groombridge revised woodblocks) in his rare publication Johnson's Atlas of England in 1847 & 1863.