Yorkshire East Riding

24x18 cm

STEEL ENGRAVING . VIGNETTE OF BEVERLEY MINSTER.

EAST RIDING and AINSTY of YORKSHIRE 
Drawn by Geo. Kemp Land Surveyor, Leeds. | Engraved by James Neele & C.^o Burleigh Street, Strand.
Published by Arch.^d Fullarton & C.^o

George Kemp (fl.1823-1843) surveyor of London and Leeds and, for a time, in partnership with Christopher and John Greenwood and, later with John Sowerby. Kemp drew the three maps of the Yorkshire Ridings for this series and each were engraved on steel by James Neele (1791-1868) engraver, copperplate printer and lithographer, son of engraver Samuel John Neele (1758-1824). 

First published in Bell's New and Comprehensive Gazetteer in 1833. The text for the gazetteer was largely copied from Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of 1831 and in 1839 Lewis obtained an injunction against Bell for plagiarism and the work was withdrawn. Archibald Fullarton, the publisher ofBell's Gazetteer republished the maps with new text in The Parliamentary Gazetteer from 1840 until 1849. The engraving work was shared between Gray & Son, James Neele and Robert Scott with most maps copied from those by Sidney Hall in an earlier topographical dictionary, John Gorton's Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland published in 1831.

Spotting to paper edges but with very generous margins the map is largely anaffected. in fine hand colour.
Vignette of Beverley Minster.

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