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Map Maker: Thomas Moule
Engraver: Engraved for Moules English Counties by

 W. Schmollinger
Date: 1837 - 1850 
Source: Taken From Moule's "The English Counties Delineated;

or, A Topographical Description Of England."
Publisher: George Virtue & Co.
Size: 26.7cm x 20.9cm (10½" x 8¼")
Scale: 1" : 21/3 Miles (Approx)
Extent: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE - MIDDLESEX - ESSEX - HERTFORDSHIRE
Description: Hand coloured engraved paper map of London. Imprint and scale below map.

This is a pretty little map of equal artistic and cartographic merit. This beautiful map was taken from Moule's "English Counties Delineated". Moule's English Counties was first published as a complete set in 1837, having previously been issued in parts from 1830 to 1836. The 1837 publication contains 58 maps, the majority being county maps. Moule's maps are highly regarded as the most attractive of all of the county maps of the period, with the Environs of London being one of the rarest. The map is embellished with engraved views set outside of the map border, of Buckinham Palace to the bottom right and Westminster Bridge and Abbey to the upper left corner. It looks like Neptune or Poiseidon in the borders protecting the ocean sacred waters of the United Kingdom.  

Middlesex. (Antique Map, Guaranteed over 150 yrs old ).

Date. [1836 -52.]

London. Virtue. Page size 10 3/4 x 8 1/2ins. Original steel engraved county map of Middlesex. marked to fold area and strengthened fold on back of map. decorated with vignettes, view of Buckingham Palace and Westminster Bridge. Ornamental border with symbolic figures woven into the design, heraldic coat of arms.

OLD MAP IS FRAMED UNDER GLASS

MEASURES JUST ABOUT 15" BY 17"

VISUAL INSPECTION SHOWS A SMALL / 0.5" TEAR IN UPPER EDGE NEAR COAT OF ARMS. NEARLY UNNOTICEABLE

RARE / OBSCURE

CURIO

GREAT HOME OFFICE OR DEN DECOR

 

 

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Biography:

Thomas Moule
was a writer on heraldry and antiquities born in 1784 at St Marylebone in London. He carried on business as a bookseller in Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, from about 1816 until 1823, when he became Inspector of 'blind' letters in the General Post Office, his principal duties being the deciphering of such addresses as were illegible to the ordinary clerks. He also held, for many years, the office of Chamber-keeper in the Lord Chamberlain's Department which entitled him to an official residence in the Stable Yard of St James's Palace, where he died on 14 January 1851.

The well-known series of County Maps which are known as 'Moules' were first published in separate sections for each county in 1830-32 and they were then published in collected form in a two-volume work: The English Counties Delineated: or a Topographical Description of England: Illustrated by a Complete Series of County Maps by Thomas Moule: London: Published by George Virtue 1836. Further editions were brought out by Virtue (some with original hand-colouring of the maps) until about 1839. In 1841 the maps appeared in a publication entitled Barclays Complete and Universal English Dictionary with additions to the original plates showing the railways which had been constructed. Normally maps which come from this work are very close trimmed, often into the printed surface, as the format of the dictionary was slightly smaller than the original publication. They are the last series of decorative county maps to be published.

Antique 19th century county maps by Thomas Moule.  

 

 

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