Cruchley’s Railway and Station Map of the County of Bedford
G.F.CRUCHLEY
Improved Edition. Sixpence Coloured. [Scale line: 4 inches to 7 miles].
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE 1882[?] ISSUE
Published: Gall & Inglis, [?1882]
Stock code: 32234
Price: £148.00
Folding map coloured in outline on paper measuring 23 x 21 ins (approx. 58 x 53 cms) folding in 18 panels to 7.0 x 4.0 ins (approx. 17.7 x 10.1 cms), a few short tears at fold edges; original pictorial card wrappers, wrapper fore-edges frayed else a very good, bright, clean copy.
'Improved from the Ordnance Surveys, these superior County Maps give the Name of every Station, also the Name of the Company each Railway belongs to'. Cruchley began publishing their Railway maps in the early 1870s. There were usually several versions of each map from different publishers; the Gall & Inglis issues appear to date from the 1880s. Map features include lat/long scales; scale line; rivers; relief; hill hatching; woods/forests/parks; county; roads, railways; telegraphs. EXTREMELY SCARCE.