Waterways & Railways

23x17 cm

SOUTHALL'S RAILWAY MAP FOR SOUTH EAST WALES
^{SOUTHALL PRINTER, NEWPORT}

Lithograph printed map on yellow paper showing the railways from Bristol to Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Brecon, Merthyr and Monmouth.

John Edward Southall (1855-1928) was a Quaker printer, publisher and author established in Newport from 1879 until about 1930 specialising in school textbooks, the Quakers, and the Welsh language.
Trimmed to border and tipped to paper. Another unidentified but similar map of the railways of North Wales is tipped onto the paper verso, also trimmed to border but with loss to bottom centre and left margin.