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Carlisle Library : Map 3

Map, hand coloured engraving, mounted in three pieces, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to a mile, by C and J Greenwood, published by George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1823.
There is a vignette View of Carlisle, engraved by E Stalker.
Each piece has a printed book plate of Charles Robinson with a coat of arms, three boars heads, and motto 'VIRTUTIS GLORIA MERCES'; and each piece has a later inscription of an owner, Isaac Mitchell, Cockermouth.
   Greenwood 1824
map feature:- slip case & sectioned for folding (3 maps each 6x4 sections) & mounted & folded (linen, with marbled paper end covers) & dedication & vignettes & table of symbols & (middle sheet) & compass rose & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales (trapezoidal projection, Longitude from Greenwich) & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & bridges & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & table of heights (Altitudes of the PRINCIPAL MOUNTAINS) & woods & forests & parks & county & wards & settlements & roads & turnpike roads (and toll gates) & road distances & canals
inscription:- embossed label on slip case spine
GREENWOOD'S / MAP OF / CUMBERLAND
gold on red
inscription:- printed upper left, north piece
MAP / OF / the County of / CUMBERLAND, / From an Actual Survey Made in the Years 1821, & 1822, / BY / C. & I. GREENWOOD, / Most Respectfully / Dedicated TO THE Nobility, Clergy & Gentry OF THE County / BY / THE PROPRIETORS. / London / Published by Geoe. Pringle Junr. / 70, Queen Street, / Cheapside. / April, 10th. 1823.
inscription:- printed with vignette
E Stalker Sculpt.
inscription:- printed with scale line
SCALE OF STATUTE MILES.
scale line:- 10+1 miles = 273.0 mm
wxhxd, slip case:- 18x28.5x5cm
wxh, folded, each piece:- 25.5x18cm
wxh, piece:- 150x60cm
wxh, map:- 1493x1799mm (estimate)
scale:- 1 to 65000 ? (1 to 64845 from scale line)