BRITISH ISLES - a spectacular, iconic and highly decorative original antique hand-coloured map of the British Isles / United Kingdom, engraved by John Rapkin and published by John Tallis in The Illustrated Atlas, in London, in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition. The map is a double-page plate from the atlas and is in very good condition, with minor signs of age, as shown. It depicts the counties of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, outlined by hand-coloured borders, with an inset showing the Shetland Islands. It is elaborately and tastefully hand-coloured, with the original colours still very good, vivid and highly appealing. The exquisite hand-coloured vignettes illustrate London, Edinburgh and Dublin, framed by an ornate decorative border. The reverse is clear and clean. The map measures approximately 15 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.5 cm). A superb example of this famous very attractive map from John Tallis’s celebrated Illustrated Atlas, for collectors.

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