Leicestershire Maps

24x19 cm

Woodblock engraved map by Joshua Archer. The 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 by W. Edwards in The Guide to Knowledge edited by W Pinnock in 1833. The maps in this format were issued in this single publication and the printing method was not popular for topographic maps and was not used again for English county maps. The woodblocks  were later published by Thomas Johnson printed more conventionally by lithographic transfer in his rare publication Johnson's Atlas of England in 1847 & 1863. 
A good dark example from the first issue of 1833.