£40 Robert Scott
1833
Ref: 1202
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20x25 cm
Steel engraving by R. Scott 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Topographical Dictionary of 1831 and in 1839 Lewis obtained an injunction against Bell for plagiarism and the work was withdrawn.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 maps 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 example in fine later hand colour.
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