Town Plans

25x17 cm

Oldham
Surveyed by J. Atkinson. | Engraved by Sid.^y Hall, Bury Str.^t Bloomsb.^y
Surveyed 1824, for "Baines' Lancashire"; published by W. Wales & C^o. Castle Street Liverpool.

Steel engraving published in the map volume to The History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster... by Edward Baines .... William Wales & Co. 1824-5.

Sidney Hall (1788?-1831), began work as an engraver about 1809 with a map of the Austrian Dominions for William Faden in 1809. He was in partnership with Michael Thomson (fl.1809-1815) in 1814. Hall was a pioneer in engraving on steel producing steel engraved maps from from 1821. He married Selina Price in 1821 and died early in 1831 aged forty-two. Selina carried on his engraving business signing her maps "S. Hall" which has caused some confusion in carto-bibliographies.

Some light spotting in margins but otherwise a good example of an uncommon town plan in neat hand colour.