The National Gazetteer

English and Scottish counties, and a telegraph map of the North Atlantic, make up these maps from The National Gazetteer, Vi...

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English and Scottish counties, and a telegraph map of the North Atlantic, make up these maps from The National Gazetteer, Virtue's illustrated topographical dictionary of the British Islands, published in London in 1868. The engraved maps, with William Hughes named as engraver on documented examples, include Durham, Dorset, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire and Rutland, Scottish groupings for Argyll and Bute and the south-western counties, and a general map of England and Wales. The North Atlantic sheet, showing the telegraph cables, brings a distinctly Victorian subject of communication to the set.

English and Scottish counties, and a telegraph map of the North Atlantic, make up these maps from The National Gazetteer, Virtue's illustrated topographical dictionary of the British Islands, published in London in 1868. The engraved maps, with William Hughes named as engraver on documented examples, include Durham, Dorset, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire and Rutland, Scottish groupings for Argyll and Bute and the south-western counties, and a general map of England and Wales. The North Atlantic sheet, showing the telegraph cables, brings a distinctly Victorian subject of communication to the set.

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