Original, steel engraved map of the City of York.
"Plan of the City of York" published by Edward Baines and engraved by Neale & Son. It was published by Edward Baines, Leeds, 1822.
Steel engraved map, printed on wove paper with early watercolour hand colouring.
In a modern Hogarth style frame, with single mount.
Plate 31cm by 26.5cm, frame 45.5cm x 40cm.
The map is in good original condition, with some age toning to the sheet (see photos). Frame and mount clean (see photos).
Comes with our Certificate of Authenticity - guaranteed authentic and original.
Delivered ready to hang.
Samuel John Neele 1752 – 1824
British engraver
Samuel John Neele was based at 352 The Strand from 1782 and
worked for such eminent cartographers and publishers as Faden, Laurie,
Stackhouse, Thomson and others. Neele engraved maps for Crosthwaite’s “Maps Of
The Lake District” (along with Ashby and Ellis) and also for Daniel August
Beaufort’s 1792 “New Map Of Ireland, Civil And Ecclesiastical”. Neele also
engraved maps for such atlases as Thomson’s “New General Atlas” in 1817 and
Robin’s “Atlas Of England And Wales” in 1819 amongst others.
From 1819 the firm became Neel & Son, then S.J Neele
& Son also working from 352 The Strand. They were responsible for the
engraving of a number of maps and atlases for the pre-eminent publishers of the
period – Greenough’s “Geological Map Of England And Wales” and Thomson’s “Atlas
Of Scotland” are of particular note. Their work encompassed a variety of
geographical areas with competency.
Edward Baines (1774-1848), MP for Leeds, author and
the proprietor of the "Leeds Mercury" Newspaper. His most notable
work was the "History of the County Palatine of Lancaster" which was
issued in four volumes in 1836. He published the "History of the Wars of
the French Revolution" in London in 1817, which included content and maps
relating to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and associated and
contemporaneous conflicts, including the War of 1812 between the United States
and the United Kingdom. In the early 1820s he published a series of City Maps,
of which this is one.
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