Surrey Maps

13x8 cm

UNCOMMON MINIATURE MAP. WITH SCALE BAR.

SURREY.
London. Published Nov^r. 1^st.. 1831, by B.Nichols & Son, 25 Parliament Str^t.

Miniature map engraved by James Cox (fl.1815-1841) from a drawing by John Walker for Benjamin Crosby (1768-1815), the compiler of Crosby's Complete Pocket Gazetteer of England and Wales... 1815.  
The John Walker above is probably the John Walker (fl.1813-1873) who was in partnership with his brother Charles (1799?-1872).
The maps later appeared in A compendium of the Ancient and Present state of…(various circuits) 1831-1835, The Family Topographer: being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England...By Samuel Tymms. John Bowyer Nichols and Son. 1831-1837, and Camden's Britannia Epitomized..1842.
This example, with the publisher's imprint B. Nichols and Son, is from one of the three later publications. It includes a scale bar.  A scale bar was included in Crosby's Gazetteer but not in The Compendium, Britannia Epitomized, and the first issue of Family Topographer and was added to most counties in the second issue of the Family Topographer.

An uncommon map in very good hand colour.