Middlesex Maps

23x16 cm

RARE LITHOGRAPH PRINTED EDITION OF THE WOODBLOCK MAPS ENGRAVED FOR "THE GUIDE TO KNOWLEDGE"

MIDDLESEX.

Rare lithographic edition of the woodblock engraved map of 1833 by Selina Hall (wife of well known engraver Sidney Hall) which was printed with white lines on a black ground and published in The Guide to Knowledge. 
This edition, published in 1847 by Thomas Johnson in his Atlas of England..., is printed by lithographic transfer and hand coloured. The transfers were taken from an issue by Groombridge Shepherd & Sutton which included the addition of a decorative banded border, though not all counties are known in this “Groombridge” state. The atlas did not sell well and examples are rare, a further unchanged issue in 1863 being extremely rare, the atlas known in only a few surviving examples.

There is an archival repair to a clean diagonal cut to bottom right corner but still a good example of a rare map