Whole of Yorkshire

32x24 cm

WOODBLOCK ENGRAVINGS. TWO SHEETS JOINED

No. LVII.] GUIDE TO KNOWLEDGE. ^PRICE _{ONE PENNY.} 
YORKSHIRE. 
Eng^d. by S.Hall, Bury S^t. Bloomsbury 
Pub^d. by W.Edwards, Ave Maria Lane.

Woodblock engraving published in The Guide to Knowledge...by W.Pinnock...W. Edwards London 1833-34.

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. Some counties were published with revised borders by Groombridge Shepherd & Sutton in 1838.
The technique proved unpopular for topographical maps and was not used again, the county maps were issued later in a more traditional format by lithographic transfer in Johnson's Atlas of England in 1847 & 1863.

Often attributed to Sidney Hall (1788?-1831) but issued two years after his death, the engraver was probably Selina Hall, née Price (1708?-1853), wife of the well known engraver. Selina married Sidney in in 1821 but he died early in 1831 aged forty two and Selina continued his engraving business after his death. As a highly skilled engraver whose work is almost indistinguishable from her husband's, Selina was very likely also responsible for some of his output in his later years, signing her work "S.Hall" while Sidney usually signed his maps "Sid.^y Hall".

This Yorkshire map was engraved on separate woodblocks and printed on separate pages in the work. This example has the two sheets pasted together to form a single map. 
Very good condition.  

Ref. Whitaker Printed Maps of Yorkshire [413]

(Attributed to Sidney Hall)