Moule’s Map of Cumberland Date of Publication_1949 Van den Broecke 99a

Van den Broecke 99a

there were numerous editions over the next forty years

engraved by Giorgio Widman

who was burned for heresy in Geneva in 1553

Moule’s Map of Cumberland Date of Publication_1949 Van den Broecke 99aThis 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