Staffordshire Maps

17x23 cm

No. LII] GUIDE TO KNOWLEDGE. PRICE ONE PENNY. | STAFFORDSHIRE | Engraved by S. Hall. | Pub^d. by W Edwards, Ave Maria Lane.
Woodblock engraved map by Sidney Hall.  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 in parts by W. Edwards in The Guide to Knowledge edited by W Pinnock in 1833 (Bedforshire appearing 23rd March). 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. 
Some fraying and nicks and stitch holes  to paper edges but the map is in good condition.overall.