Whole of Ireland

17x23 cm

WOOD ENGRAVED MAP


IRELAND
London. Published for the Proprietors by W.Edwards 12, Ave Maria Lane.
J.Archer sc. 
Imprint verso; R.Clay, Printer, 7, Bread-street Hill, Cheapside

William Pinnock (1782-1843), born in Alton, Hampshire became a schoolmaster. In 1817 he moved to London and, in partnership with Samuel Maunder, began the publication of cheap educational works. The Guide to Knowledge was a publication issued in weekly parts between 1833 and 1834 and containing maps printed from the woodblock with the incised lines appearing white on a black ground. The technique proved unpopular for topographical maps and was not used again, the county maps appeaed later in the more traditional format by lithographic transfer Johnson's Atlas of England in 1847 & 1863.


The engraver of this Ireland map was Joshua Archer (c.1792-1863), Engraver, cartographer and copperplate printer, born in Barnstaple in Devon. His first recorded work as an engraver was a map of Scotland for Robert Wilkinson in 1814. He was declared bankrupt in 1835, imprisoned for debt in 1845 but recorded as a map and chart engraver aged 69, on the 1861 census, living in Islington with his wife, Jane, a son, John, also a map and chart engraver, Albert Archer, (map and chart draughtsman) and his wife Elizabeth and three children.  

A very good clean example.