Moule’s Map of Cumberland Date of Publication_1949 engraved by Giorgio Widman

engraved by Giorgio Widman

there were numerous editions over the next forty years

one in the lower margin

shortly before his retirement in 1934

Moule’s Map of Cumberland Date of Publication_1949 engraved by Giorgio WidmanThis map of Cumberland is by Moule, a bookseller, writer on heraldry and publisher who commissioned what is generally considered to be the last really decorative series of English county maps. They were first issued in monthly parts with a simple single colour wash between 1830 37, but were issued black and white thereafter, mostly being used to illustrate editions of English Counties Delineated and Barclay's Dictionary. Condition & Materials Steel