(MINING SOUTH WALES COALFIELD) Lt Col Thomas Colby; and I

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(MINING -- SOUTH WALES COALFIELD.) Lt. Col. Thomas Colby; and Illtyd Thomas, Mining and Civil Engineer. South Wales Steam Coal Collieries. Large electrotype map of southern Wales with lithographed over-print and hand-coloring. 33x38 1/2 inches overall, segmented and mounted on original linen backing with marbled paper self-wrapper, folding into 8vo format gilt-blocked cloth case (front cover detached); minor wear; Board of Agriculture Ordnance Survey May and June '91 blindstamps to upper margin; oval ink stamp of Cheney, Eggar & Forrester, London (coal agents). London, 1833 with corrections to 1889 [but 1891]

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An interesting repurposing of the lower Welsh section of the Ordnance Survey of England, Wales and Part of Scotland. Cardiff publisher William Lewis has taken the extremely detailed Survey map as his base and lithographed to it the names of nearly 100 steam collieries operating in the South Wales Coalfield in the late nineteenth century. Each tract is neatly hand-colored and presents a striking geological profile of the activity happening at one of the world's largest coal regions nearing the peak of its industry. No other copies located.