Black's Road and Railway Travelling Map of
England
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map type:- Black 1870s |
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Black's Road and Railway Travelling Map of England, scale
about 14 miles to 1 inch, engraved by S Hall, published by A
and C Black, Edinburgh, Lothian, early 1870s.
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(map example JandMN (26))
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| map feature:- | sectioned for folding & mounted & folded & card covers & title cartouche & plain cartouche & up is N & scale line & lat and long scales & lat and long grid & table of symbols & sea tinted & coast line & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & county & settlements & roads & railways & canals | |
| inscription:- |
embossed cover
BLACK'S / ROAD & RAILWAY / TRAVELLING MAP / OF / ENGLAND / 4s. 6d. gold on dark green; illustrated with a 2-2-2 railway locomotive and a stage coach |
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| inscription:- |
printed upper right in a plain cartouche
ENGLAND / AND / WALES |
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| inscription:- |
printed bottom
Edinburgh, Published by A. & C. Black. / Engraved by S Hall, Bury Str. Bloomsbury |
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| scale line:- | 50 miles = 88.8 mm | |
| wxh,folded in cover:- | 12x15cm | |
| wxh, sheet:- | 66.5x87cm | |
| wxh, map:- | 570x820mm | |
| scale:- | 1 to 900000 ? (1 to 906162 from scale line) | |
| sources:- |
JandMN Collection Bicknell 1990 |
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| items seen (illustrated items in bold):- | ||
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JandMN (26) -- railway map -- Black's Road and Railway Travelling Map of England -- England and Wales | |