Code: 58807
Date: 1897
Lithograph with hand colouring. The twelve railways on the map are colour coded with a key (’Note’) bottom right. 70.8cms x 53.9cms. Folds into marbled boards ( 13.4cms x 18.5cms ) and marbled endpaper to the map. Green label on front inside board ,’Bound by William Lewis, Bookseller Published by Standidge & Co Ltd Old Jewry and 18 Worship Street. E. C. Inset of Cardiff & Penarth Docks. The spine is labelled TVRMap 1897.
George Thomas Sibbering (G.T. Sibbering) was a prominent railway engineer in South Wales, best known as the Chief Engineer for the Taff Vale Railway (TVR) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries . His name is stamped in gold on the front of the map.
