A Travelling County Atlas: With all the Coach and Rail Roads accurately laid down and coloured and carefully corrected to the present time.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Chapman and Hall 1842. 8vo. Orig. full calf (mildly marked) envelope with repaired edges. Gilt titling to cover. Comprising 46 folding engraved maps hand-coloured in outline depicting some projected railway lines never actually constructed. 1st edition of this fascinating atlas. Sidney Hall pioneered the use of the steel engravings in the production of these maps which was completed by his widow after his death in 1831.