Yorkshire North Riding

41x34 cm

LITHOGRAPHIC COLOUR PRINTED MAP.

YORKSHIRE 
(NORTH WEST SHEET) 
GEORGE PHILIP & SON LONDON & LIVERPOOL 

This series, engraved by Edward Weller, F.R.G.S. (1819-1884), one of the pioneers of lithograph printed maps, were first issued as loose sheet maps by George Phiiip & Son, printed by lithographic transfer and hand coloured from about 1864 and first published in atlas form, again by lithographic transfer but now overprinted in colours, in Philips' atlas of the counties of England... George Philip & Son, 1865. The series continued to be issued in various publications, undergoing many changes to the plates and alterations on the transfer until the beginning of the 21st century.

This map, overprinted in colours representing Parliamentary divisions & boroughs, was published in Philips’ atlas of the counties of England… in 1885.
Showing part of North Yorkshire from Knaresborough to Hawes, Barnard Castle and Stockyon, and part of Westmorland from Settle to Sedburgh.