Hall’s Travelling County Atlas – First Edition Printed Area Measurement_54 x 60 cm Cowesfield

Cowesfield

26 x 34 cm

This miniature map of the Electoral Palatinate is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri

was a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society and was appointed Geographer to both George IV and William IV

all in the southern portion of the map

Hall’s Travelling County Atlas – First Edition Printed Area Measurement_54 x 60 cm CowesfieldA Travelling County Atlas: With all the Coach and Rail Roads accurately laid down and coloured and carefully corrected to the present time. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842 Sidney Hall was almost certainly the first to use the new hardened steel printing plates for map work, mostly for small format educational works such as A Grammar of General Geography' (1821) and Butlers Atlas of Ancient Geography' (1822). Engraving on steel allowed for particularly