Essex Maps

11x7 cm

MINIATURE MAP LATER USED FOR "REUBEN RAMBLES" TRAVELS THROUGH THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND.

ESSEX
London: William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill.

Miniature map first issued in sets of cards c.1819 by Thomas Crabb. Further playing card issues published between 1822 and 1825 by John Hinton, William Darton and Orlando Hodgson. All these playing card issues are extremely rare. This first atlas issue was published by Robert Miller in Miller’s new miniature atlas containing a complete set of county maps… London (1821). William Darton acquired the plates, publishing them in Darton’s new miniature atlas containing a complete set of county maps… London [1822] & [1825].
The maps are best known, printed by lithographic transfer with the addition of vignettes of local landmarks and industry, published in Rev. Samuel Clark’s Georgian school atlas Reuben Ramble's Travels Through the Counties Of England published by Darton & Clark in 1845 & Darton & Co. in 1850.

This fine example is from the atlas issue published by William Darton in 1822 and 1825. 
Original hand colour. 

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