A Travelling County Atlas: With all the Coach and Rail Roads accurately laid down and coloured and carefully corrected to the present time.
by Hall, Sidney:
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. First edition of this pocket county atlas (21 cm tall). Title page, index leaf + 46 steel engraved maps with original hand colour in outline, all but four of which are double-page; Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Yorkshire are on two folded sheets. Some paper repairs to the folds of the larger maps, occasional spotting, adhesion damage, short splits and other signs of use. Original green publishers roan wallet style binding with a tuck, neat restoration to joints, title lettered direct in gilt on the cover. Sidney Hall was almost certainly the first to use the new hardened steel printing plates for map work, mostly for small format educational works such as A Grammar of General Geography' (1821) and Butlers Atlas of Ancient Geography' (1822). Engraving on steel allowed for particularly fine detail, for example in shading and hachuring. Sidney Hall died in 1831 but the business - and work on this atlas - was completed by his wife Selina, who was also an accomplished engraver. Sidney Hall generally abbreviated his name to 'Sdy Hall', while Selina signed 'S Hall' (e.g. on the maps of Norfolk and Rutland). The early railways are prominent - coloured red - and were revised and updated between editions (including proposed lines which were not always built). The atlas was widely advertised in the press (e.g. Illustrated London News, August 22 1844), often quoting from a favourable notice in the Westminster Review: 'the best atlas we have seen for neatness, portability and clear engraving... exactly the size, without being too bulky, for the pocket on an overcoat'. Book
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9295
- Title
- A Travelling County Atlas: With all the Coach and Rail Roads accurately laid down and coloured and carefully corrected to the present time.
- Author
- Hall, Sidney:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1842
- Bookseller catalogs
- Atlases & Books with Maps;
Terms of Sale
Bryars and Bryars
Books may be returned within seven days of receipt if not entirely as described. All items remain the property of the vendor until payment has been received in full. Payment must be made in Pounds Sterling drawn on a UK bank.
About the Seller
Bryars and Bryars
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Bryars and Bryars
Our shop is located in Cecil Court, a charming Victorian backwater in the heart of London's theatreland which boasts over 20 specialist book, map and print shops. Open: Mon-Sat 11-6. Nearest tube: Leicester Square (Exit 1, Charing Cross Road south, towards National Gallery).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...