Suburbs of London Sheet 3 Bromley, Blackwall etc by Edward Weller

Code: 53566

Date: Circa 1863

Lithograph with later hand colouring.  Overall sheet size: 33.3cms x 48.6 ; 306mm x 455mm.   Old folds  as issued, now not visible from front.  Very good condition.

This is the third of six supplementary suburban maps that accompanied the original nine sheet map of London, and showed newly developing areas outside Central London. West India and East India Docks ; Canning Town.    Hyde, Printed Maps Of Victorian London, No.73(1)

Edward Weller was a cartographer and engraver based in London. His best known work appears in Cassell’s Weekly Dispatch Atlas, published in monthly segments for subscribers of the “Weekly Dispatch” newspaper.  The maps are characterised by their detail and attractive outline colour and up to date information.  The majority have an emblematical design of the upper half of a globe with a scroll "the Dispatch atlas" wrapped round it  and above is the flying figure of Mercury (messenger of the Gods) .