Rumney 1899 map
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Map, colour lithograph? on Pegamoid cloth, Map of The
Lake District of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire,
scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, for A W Rumney, published by
George Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, and
Liverpool, 1899.
Folded and inserted in a pocket in the front cover of the Cyclist's Guide to the English Lake District, by A W Rumney. The uncoloured, except the blue sea and lakes, base map is overprinted with cycling roads coloured to indicate their surface quality. The map is printed on Pegamoid cloth, advertised as untearable, impervious to water, etc. |
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Rumney 1899 map | |
| map feature:- | table of symbols (two - one presumably of the original base map, the other for the overprinting) & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & sea tinted & coast line & rivers & lakes & relief & hill hachuring & forests & parks & county & settlements & roads & railways & canals | |
| inscription:- |
printed lower left
MAP OF THE / LAKE DISTRICT / OF / CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND / AND / LANCASHIRE. |
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| inscription:- |
printed above scale line
English Miles. |
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| scale line:- | 10 miles = 62.0 mm | |
| wxh, folded:- | 10x13cm | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 38x46.5cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 333x412mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 260000 ? (1 to 259572 from scale line) | |