Staffordshire Maps

31x44 cm

^{THE DISPATCH ATLAS
B R DAVIES} 
STAFFORDSHIRE. BY JOHN DOWER.
Weekly Dispatch atlas, 139 Fleet street. | Drawn & Engraved by John Dower, Pentonville Hill London.
Day & Son Lith^rs. to The Queen.

The map was drawn and engraved on copper John Dower and transferred to stone for lithographic reproduction by Day & Son, the engraved plate was not used for direct intaglio printing. The first publication was in the Weekly Dispatch Newspaper between 1856 and 1862, followed by loose sheet issues and when the series was complete, in The Dispatch Atlas in 1863.

Some repaired nicks to edges, some occasional light creasing, spotting to lower margin and a brown spot near Shiffnal, otherwise good, in original hand colour from The Weekly Dispatch Atlas 1863.