Leicestershire Maps

24x19 cm

LEICESTERSHIRE
Steel engraving by Gray & Son first published in Bell's New and Comprehensive Gazetteer in 1833. The text for the gazetteer was largely copied from Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1831 and in 1839 Lewis obtained an injunction against Bell for plagiarism and the work was withdrawn. Archibald Fullarton, the publisher of Bell's Gazetteer republished the maps with new text in The Parliamentary Gazetteer from 1840 until 1849. Most of the maps were also copied from those in an earlier topographical dictionary, those by Sidney Hall prepared for John Gorton's Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland published in 1831 as a rival to Lewis' work.
Good hand coloured example of the map of Leicestershire with vignette of Belvoir Castle from the 1840 edition of The Parliamentary Gazetteer published by Archibald Fullarton & Co.