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[GREENOUGH, George Bellas (1778-1855)]. Geological map of England and Wales, reduced by permission from the map in 6 sheets published by the Geological Society. London: J. Gardner, June 1st 1826. Hand-coloured engraved geological map (712 x 560mm), to the scale of one inch to 17.5 miles (1:1,108,800), dissected and laid down on linen, with green silk ribbon border. (Very faint browning and offsetting.) The map contained in a contemporary straight-grained green morocco slipcase (extremities rubbed, top flap detached in two pieces).
FIRST ISSUE of the first reprint of Greenough's great map of 1819 [i.e. 1820], although curiously enough his name does not appear, and there is no published bibliographic record of this. There are at least three other issues of this map, all with the same imprint as the present work, but with the date July 21st 1826. Two of these issues carry the names of either C. Smith, 172 Strand, or G.F. Cruchley, 81 Fleet St., on printed slips pasted over the Gardner imprint. The present lot has the geological mapping engraved differently to the later July issues.
FIRST ISSUE of the first reprint of Greenough's great map of 1819 [i.e. 1820], although curiously enough his name does not appear, and there is no published bibliographic record of this. There are at least three other issues of this map, all with the same imprint as the present work, but with the date July 21st 1826. Two of these issues carry the names of either C. Smith, 172 Strand, or G.F. Cruchley, 81 Fleet St., on printed slips pasted over the Gardner imprint. The present lot has the geological mapping engraved differently to the later July issues.