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map type:-
Dunlop 1950s
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Pictorial map, A Dunlop Map of the Lake District, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by J R Hart, published by Dunlop Robber Co, about 1950?
The simple map is illustrated with pictures of Cumbian life - walking, shepherding, wrestling, etc, and has vignettes of Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, de Quincey, and Ruskin.
The map is printed on a fold out leaflet describing and illustrating The Lakes, with short biographies of Wordsworth, Southey and de Quincey.
(example JandMN (188))
map feature:- title cartouche & vignettes & compass rose & up is N & sea tinted & coast line & rivers & lakes & relief & layer colouring & county & settlements & roads & descriptive text
inscription:- printed title cartouche
A DUNLOP MAP / OF THE / LAKE DISTRICT / Introducing Places / of Literary Interest
inscription:- printed below title
J. R. HART
wxh, sheet:- 22.5x24cm
wxh, map:- 202x215mm
scale:- 1 to 250000 ? (estimate)
sources:- JandMN Collection

items seen (illustrated items in bold):-
   JandMN (188) -- map -- Dunlop Map of the Lake District