Essex Maps

21x16 cm

UNCOMMON.

ESSEX.
London, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, Augt.10th.1818.
Sidy. Hall sculpt. 14. Bury Stt.Bloomsby.

Copper engraving by Sidney Hall published in Excursions in the County of Essex…forming a complete guide for the Traveller and Tourist…London 1818.

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

Good hand coloured example. Folds as usual. Good margins. Uncommon.