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FULLARTON, Archibald : The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales, Adapted to the New Poor-Law ..

A. Fullarton and Co., London, 1847

Quarto, 4 volumes (245 x 170 mm. each), modern quarter calf, marbled paper boards, spines with gilt calf title labels affixed, later endpapers. With typographic title page, pp. xlix, 648; (2), 616; (2), 656; (2), 640,(2), 80, with 47 steel engraved maps comprising large folding map of Englnd & Wales, 42 maps of the English counties (Yorkshire in 3 Ridings), 4 folding of Wales and 3 steel engraved plates, with light foxing, otherwise in good condition.

In 1833-34 James Bell published A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer in parts. Much of its source material was drawn from Samuel Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary of England. In 1839 Lewis managed to obtain an injunction against Bell. The maps engraved for the work were later retained by Archibald Fullarton & Co. who utilised them in the Parliamentary Gazetteer with new text, first issued in 1840. The Fullarton maps each contain a decorative vignette, these later issues bear railways. The plates were constantly updated as the rapidly expanding railway network grew. The maps are filed alphabetically except for Hampshire which is filed under its alternative name Southampton. Beresiner (1983) p. 102; Carroll (1996) 99; refer Chubb (1927) 510.

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