Parts of Scotland

43x31 cm

EDINBURGHSHIRE
BY EDW.^D WELLER. F.R.G.S.
LONDON, PUBLISHED BY CASSELL, PETTER & GALPIN. LA BELLE SAUVAGE YARD, LUDGATE HILL, E.C.

Lithograph printed map engraved by Edward Weller first published in The Weekly Dispatch between 1856 and 1862. The maps were also published as loose sheets and, when the series was complete, in The Dispatch Atlas from 1863. The publishers Cassell Petter and Galpin acquired the plates publishing them as loose sheets from 1864 and in Cassell's Illustrated family paper and Cassell's British Atlas in 1867. By 1869, the firm of G. W. Bacon had acquired the plates and published them in a number of titles for over forty years. 

Edward Weller (1819-1884) was born in London, the son of Edward Weller and Margaret King. He was left £50 in 1831 by his uncle, mapmaker Sidney Hall (1788?-1831) to pay for an apprenticeship. He married Mary Ann Ward in May 1847 at St Martin in the fields and was described as a map engraver on the 1851 Census, living with his wife, three children, two servants and a lodger. On the recommendation of John Arrowsmith (1790-1873) and others, was elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society on 14th April 1851. In 1853 he inherited the Hall map business and premises in Bury Street, Bloomsbury from his aunt Selina Hall. He later succeeded John Arrowsmith as unofficial cartographer to the RGS. The Census of 1861 describes him as a painter living in Red Lion Square with his wife, six children and two servants and the 1871 Census describes him as a geographical engraver and lithographic printer with wife, six children and a servant. The 1881 Census noted that he was employing fourteen men and four boys, and was living with his wife, five unmarried daughters, a house maid and a cook. He died at Red Lion Square 17 May 1884, his estate valued at £7,626.6s. 5d. 
 
Slight toning at centrefold but still a good hand coloured example from the fourth lithographic transfer, with statistical information in typeset text transferred to the lithographic plate, published in Cassell's British Atlas...London Cassell, Petter & Galpin 1867.