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Railway, the North- Western main line, and the branch to 

 Aylesbury are inserted. The miles are marked on the main 

 roads, and the hills are heavily shaded. In the left-hand top 

 corner, in ornamental capitals : " Hertfordshire." Below the 

 title is a " scale of Miles " (and " Furlongs "), and again below, 

 particulars of the members of parliament returned, and signs for 

 rectories, vicarages, perpetual curacies, and chapels of ease, 

 as used on the map. In the right-hand bottom corner a Table 

 of Places of Election and Polling, and, below the margin, at 

 foot, on the left hand : " Drawn by E. P. Becker & C°, Albion 

 Road, HoUoway." ; in the centre: " Fisher, Son & C° London & 

 Paris " ; and, on the right : " Engraved on Steel by ' The Omni- 

 graph.' E. P. Becker & C° Patentees." 



From ' Fisher's Coimty Atlas of England and Wales.' 

 London, no date, fol. This atlas has letterpress descriptive 

 matter inserted between the maps. The earlier pages are 

 headed ' Grilbert's County Atlas ', but afterwards ' Fisher's 

 County Atlas of England and Wales.' Some of the maps are 

 engraved by J. Archer. The frontispiece map of England and 

 Wales is dated, at foot, 1845, and the figui'es of the census of 

 1841 are inserted in the text. 



1845 (?). Ramble, Reuben (pseudonym). 41 x 2^ 

 Scale, about 12 miles = 1 inch. 



A small map of the county engraved in the middle of a 4to 

 page, the margin of which is filled with views and rui'al scenes. 

 At the top, St. Alban's Abbey and a loaded wagon ; on the left, 

 Waltham Cross ; on the right, a man threshing in a barn with a 

 flail ; and, at the bottom, scenes of mowing corn and picking 

 fruit. The map itself is in a double-lined border, with degrees 

 and minutes of latitude and longitude, and shows the county 

 boundary, the main roads, the London and North Western rail- 

 way, the rivers, towns, villages, and parks. In the top left- 

 hand corner is the title : " Hertfordsh ", and, below : " Railways 



. . . ." In the right-hand bottom corner is a " Scale of 

 Miles" (10), and an arrow-head indicator of the north above 

 it. In the margin at foot, on the left : " Long. West " , and on 

 the right : " Long. East." The meridian seems to be that of 

 London. 



From ' Reuben Ramble's Travels through the Counties of 

 England.' London, no date, 4to. This work is described in the 

 preface as a "Juvenile Introduction to the English Counties." 

 It contains 40 maps, with a letterpress description of two pages 

 to each map, in large type. The frontispiece, title-page, and the 

 designs round the maps are coloured. A few railways are shown 

 on the maps. The population of Herts is given as 157,000 (i.e., 

 for the year 1841). The same work, with the same maps and 

 designs, was pubhshed in five sections, with separate titles 

 on cardboard covers. That of the second section is ' Reuben 

 Ramble's Travels in the Southern Counties of England ', with, 



