Regional Maps of England & Wales

32x45 cm

NORTH EAST SHEET OF DISPATCH NEWSPAPER MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES

THE DISPATCH ATLAS 
ENGLAND AND WALES
BY EDW^D. WELLER. F.R.G.S.
E. Weller, Lithog^r.

First published in the Sunday supplement to the Weekly Dispatch Newspaper  Sept. 18th 1859, this map of England and Wales was printed by lithographic transfer on four separate sheets from engraved plates by Edward Weller F.R.G.S. (1819-1884), one of the pioneers of lithograph printed maps.
When the series was complete, the maps were published in in The Dispatch Atlas in 1863. Publishers Cassell Petter and Galpin acquired the plates and published them 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 issuing them under a number of titles for over forty years.

North East sheet with blind stamp for the Sunday supplement upper left corner. Fine original colour.