Worcestershire Maps

23x16 cm

WORCESTERSHIRE
London. Published for the Proprietors by W.Edwards 12, Ave Maria Lane.
J.Archer.sc.
Woodblock engraved map by Joshua Archer (1792?-1863) published in weekly parts in The Guide to Knowledge edited by W Pinnock...London: W.Edwards 1833-34.
The unusual printing method whereby the engraved woodblock was inked with a roller without working the ink into the engraved cuts resulting in a white line on a black ground was not suited to to topographical maps and this is the only series of maps to use the techinique.

The guide was re-issued in 1838 and some of the maps appeared in 1844 in an incomplete Descriptive county atlas of England and Wales by Groombridge Shepherd & Sutton with a decorative border using coloured inks. The final use of the maps was by Thomas Johnson printed more conventionally by lithographic transfer from the Groombridge revised woodblocks in Johnson's Atlas of England in 1847 & 1863. The maps were noticeably out of date by this time following the rapid deveopment of the railway network and were not popular, examples from this publication are rare.