“Miss Pearce”
Manuscript atlas – “England Delineated”
£945
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
“With outline maps of all the counties”, 1817. Compiled at Mrs Keeble’s School, Camberwell, comprising a manuscript title-page, 99 manuscript pages of description and 43 hand-drawn and coloured maps of English counties (and North and South Wales), 23 x 18.5cm, contemporary green half morocco, a little dust soiling and occasional spotting in places
Footnote
Note: A meticulous schoolgirl project, this small atlas covers England and Wales by county, describing each county, their principal towns, rivers, hills and manufacturing productions. Created as a geography exercise, this book gives a glimpse of each county’s economic output in the early 19th century.