SET - William Smith 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales with part of Scotland (folded) + Memoir to the map and delineation of the strata of England and Wales with part of Scotland by William Smith (reproduction)
Product code: BWSSET
Print publication date: 12/02/2015
British Geological Survey, British Geological Survey titles, William Smith related publications, Regional Geology and General Interest, History of Geology, GeoGifts
Type: Book & Folded Map
Author/Edited by: by William Smith
Weight: 0.63kg
Number of pages: 52
£22.40
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Memoir
25.5 x 21 cm, paperback.
Reproduction re-mastered from an original held in the BGS Library.
Map
127.6cm x 95.2cm. (Folded size: 24cm x 13.3cm.)
A reproduction of William Smith's famous 1815 geological map of 'England and Wales with part of Scotland' (series 53, issued between 2nd Nov 1815 and 17th Dec 1815). The original map was never published as a single sheet. The large size of the original map and the size of the printing presses in the early 19th century meant that it had to be published in fifteen sections, each folded into six 'panels'. The original panels held in the BGS Library have been scanned and the joins removed digitally.
At its original scale of five miles to the inch, the map would have been eight feet long by six feet wide if it had ever been published as a single sheet. The reproduction is published at approximately half scale: ten miles to the inch, and is colour-matched to the original. The original maps are valuable and fragile; viewing at BGS is by appointment only. Now this beautiful half-scale reproduction means that Smith's achievement can, at long last, be widely appreciated.
