The Lake District and Isle of Man, Antique Map of North West England, 1843
US$271
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1843
Mapmaker / artist
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London; engraved by John and Charles Walker
Publisher
Charles Knight and Company, 22 Ludgate Street, London
Technique
Steel Engraving
Coloring
Original hand color
Sheet size
35 × 43.5 cm (13.8 × 17.1 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14487-2-11
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Light overall age toning, with the paper darker along the bottom edge, scattered foxing in the margins, one or two spots larger than the rest and wear to the top right corner. The printed image itself is clean.
About this sheet
This antique map of 1843 is the second sheet of the Society's large map of England and Wales and takes in the north west corner of the country. Cumberland and Westmorland fill the right of the sheet with the Lake District drawn in dense hachure, Derwent Water, Ullswater, Windermere and Coniston all named, and Carlisle, Keswick, Kendal, Whitehaven and Workington marked. Morecambe Bay and the Lancashire coast run down to Lancaster at the lower edge. The Isle of Man lies in the middle of the sheet, mapped in full with Douglas, Castletown, Peel and Ramsey, the Point of Ayre and the Calf of Man. Across the top and the left the coasts of Scotland and Ireland are outlined without detail, with Arran, Cantire, the Mull of Galloway, Belfast Lough and Lough Strangford shown. County boundaries are picked out in orange, blue and green outline color applied by hand.
The plate comes from Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, in the new edition corrected to the present time that Charles Knight and Company published at 22 Ludgate Street, London, in 1845, whose first volume covers Europe. The Society was founded in 1826 by Henry Brougham and his circle to publish useful knowledge at a low price. Its maps were issued in parts from 1829, first by Baldwin and Cradock, from 1842 by Chapman and Hall and then by Charles Knight, and the series grew to about two hundred maps. Most of them were engraved on steel by John and Charles Walker, and the outline color was applied by hand.
The plate is signed by J. and C. Walker as engravers. The imprint at the foot names Charles Knight and Company of 22 Ludgate Street, London and is dated November 1843.
Light overall age toning, with the paper darker along the bottom edge, scattered foxing in the margins, one or two spots larger than the rest and wear to the top right corner. The printed image itself is clean.
This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
