Antique Map of Suffolk with Great Yarmouth and the North Sea Coast, 1885

This is an original antique map of Suffolk, printed by lithography with original hand coloring and dated 1885 by the atlas it comes from. The title in the lower right, set in the sea, reads "SUFFOLK.", followed by "REDUCED FROM THE ORDNANCE SURVEY." and "Divided into 5 mile squares", with a scale of British Statute Miles. A panel headed "EXPLANATION" in the lower left gives the boundaries, railways and borough wash.

The county runs across the sheet with "NORTH SEA" lettered down the right. The western part is washed by hand in green and the eastern in rose. Crimson borough washes mark Bury St. Edmunds in the west, Eye in the north, and Ipswich on the Orwell. Newmarket, Haverhill, Sudbury, Stowmarket, Framlingham, Halesworth and Woodbridge are lettered inland. The coast is drawn in detail from Great Yarmouth and Yarmouth Roads at the top, past Lowestoft, Southwold, Dunwich, Aldborough and Orford, to Harwich and the Stour at the foot, with the offshore banks traced in the sea. Norfolk is lettered across the top with Thetford, Diss and Loddon, Cambridgeshire down the left with Ely and Newmarket, and Essex along the foot. The sheet is divided into five mile squares with letters and figures in the border.

No maker's name is lettered on this sheet. A printed note explains that "The official names of Railway Stations are all engraved in a special character, thus, Clayton; except where indicated by the name of the town being in bold letters and identical with the name of the Station." A sheet number at the upper right is cut by the trimmed edge.

It comes from The New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, published in London by G. W. Bacon and Co., and is dated 1885 by the volume it was taken from; no date is printed on the sheet itself. Edward Weller (1819 to 1884) was a London map engraver and draftsman and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Vertical fold down the center from binding. Even age toning. A few small foxing spots in the margin. Slight wear at the bottom left corner. Minor edge wear, a shallow nick along the bottom at the fold.

This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.