COLLECTION NAME:
Maps Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL1211179
Reference Number:
Booker & Mills C231
Parent Work Title:
Map of the County of Gloucester from actual surveys in the years 1823 & 1824
Date Created:
1824
Page/Sheet:
Sheet 1
Image Sequence Number:
001
Image Sequence Total:
006
Description:
Gloucestershire. Top left corner of total map showing Gloucestershire where it borders with Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Hand coloured with large title (top left). Very rich detail includes roads and place names. Each area is shaded a different colour and the map has a brown edging with longitude and latitude angles marked. Printed at the top is 'Longitude West from Greenwich'. The left hand edge of a compass rose is visible. The large title (top left) has the inscription underneath: ' Inscribed by Permission to his Grace the Duke of Beaufort KG, Lord Lieutenant and to the nobility, clergy and gentry of the County'. Beneath this is printed: 'London, published by A Bryant 27 Great Ormond Street, December 1st 1824'.
Language Code:
eng-GB
Language Name:
English
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Maps
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Technique Used:
Hand colouring
Support:
Paper
Time Period Covered:
17th Century CE
Places Covered:
England: Gloucestershire
People Covered:
Beaufort, Henry Charles Somerset, Duke of, 1766-1835
Item Height:
665 mm
Item Width:
915 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Colonel Dudley Mills and Mr R.P.L. Booker, former owners
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
Copyright restrictions apply
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2012-02-07
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2012-07
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
