Monmouthshire, an original antique map by B. Clarke / H.G. Collins, published in London, c. 1848 -1852. A lithograph engraving, coloured. Map size 35 x 41 cm with a mount size of 49.5 x 57.5 cm.A detailed nineteenth-century map of Monmouth that was published in the atlas, The British Gazetteer, Political, Commercial, Ecclesiastical, & Historical.. . in 1852. These lithograph maps bear the imprint of H.G. Collins in Paternoster Row & show accurate geographical detail, including the expanding railway network, surrounded by a floral border. Information also
Includes:: the turnpike & mail coach roads as well as parliamentary boundaries & polling places, the seats of the nobility & the gentry, & market towns with their distances from London. The maps are lithographic version of Robert Rowe's county maps that were published from engraved copperplates between 1814 & 1842. Collins also published these lithograph versions in 1848 in the New British Atlas & they were subsequently reused by Phillips in his County Atlas.. . in the 1860s
- their use in a variety of publications is testament to their popularity. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford