MAP #: 327V5
CARTOGRAPHER : VANCE, D.H.
DATE: 1827
SHORT TITLE : MAP OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND
REMAINING TITLE & ID : CONSTRUCTED FROM THE LATEST AUTHORITIES. 1827 (CENTER TOP). "7" (RIGHT TOP MARGIN). "DRAWN BY D.H. VANCE." (LEFT BOTTOM MARGIN). "PUBLISHED BY A. FINLEY PHILADa." (CENTER BOTTOM MARGIN). "ENGRAV'D BY J.H. YOUNG." (RIGHT BOTTOM MARGIN). POPULATION TABLE FOR VIRGINIA BY COUNTIES DIVIDING THE POPULATION INTO WHITES, FREE BLACKS, SLAVES, AND GIVING TOTAL POPULATION BASED ON THE 1820 CENSUS (TOP LEFT CORNER). SIMILAR POPULATION TABLES FOR MARYLAND (BELOW VA. TABLE) AND FOR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (BELOW MARYLAND TABLE). SCALE OF 60 MILES (BELOW D.C. TABLE). INSET "PLAN OF WASHINGTON CITY & GEORGETOWN." (IN BLACK AND WHITE, 9.9 X 15.1 CM., TOP RIGHT CORNER). THERE IS NOTHING ON THE REVERSE SIDE. THERE IS NO WATERMARK ON THE PAPER. LONGITUDE FROM WASHINGTON (TOP BORDER). LONGITUDE WEST FROM GREENWICH (BOTTOM BORDER). LATITUDE (RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS).
DATA IS FROM PHILIPS, RISTOW, SABIN AND FROM OBSERVATION OF THE COPIES OF THE MAP IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION.
EDITION & STATE INFO : THIS HAS NOT BEEN THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED., HOWEVER, THE MAP DATED 1824, WHICH MAY ORIGINALLY HAVE BEEN ISSUED AS A SEPARATE, FIRST APPEARED IN AN ATLAS IN ANTHONY FINLEY'S A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS IN 1826 AS MAP # 7. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT A SUBSEQUENT ISSUE OF THE ATLAS WITH THE MAP UPDATED AS TO DATE WAS PUBLISHED, ALTHOUGH RISTOW STATES THAT IT "APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A ONE-TIME EFFORT." THE SAME PLATES WERE USED BY S.A. MITCHELL FOR AN ATLAS PUBLISHED UNDER THE SAME NAME IN 1831, WITH SOME PLATE CHANGES.
1ST STATE - (1824) - SIMILIAR TO THE 1827 STATE EXCEPT THAT THE DATE IN THE TITLE IS 1824.THIS VERSION APPEARED IN FINLEY'S A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS, PHILADELPHIA, 1826, AS MAP # 7. SEE MAP # 324V5.
ANOTHER STATE - (1825) - THIS IS SIMILAR TO THE 1824 STATE EXCEPT THAT THE DATE IN THE TITLE IS 1825. THE IMPRINT DATE REMAINS 1824. A COPY OF THIS STATE WAS SEEN BRIEFLY IN THE OLD PRINT SHOP IN NYC. SEE MAP # 325V5.
ANOTHER STATE - (1827) - THIS IS SIMILAR TO THE 1825 STATE EXCEPT THAT THE DATE IN THE TITLE IS CHANGED TO 1827 AND THE IMPRINT DATE HAS BEEN DELETED. THIS IS THE MAP DESCRIBED HEREIN.
ANOTHER STATE - (1831) - THE FINLEY IMPRINT IS DELETED AND IN ITS PLACE WAS ADDED "PUBLISHED BY S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL, PHILADELPHIA, 1831." VANCE'S NAME IS DELETED. THE J.H. YOUNG LEGEND IS MOVED TO INSIDE THE NEAT LINE AND CHANGED TO "J.H. YOUNG, SC." A NEW DECORATIVE BORDER IS ADDED. SOME TOWNS AND ROADS WERE ADDED BY MITCHELL. SEE MAP # 331V5.
ANOTHER STATE - (1832) - THE L.C. HAS A SECOND MITCHELL VERSION OF THIS MAP DATED 1832 WITH THE TITLE "MAP OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND CONSTRUCTED FROM THE LATEST AUTHORITIES. PUBLISHED BY S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL PHILADELPHIA 1832". THE POPULATION TABLE HAS BEEN RETAINED. THE OTHER CHANGES NOTED IN THE 1831 STATE WERE ALSO MADE. SEE MAP # 332V5.
HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS TWO GOOD COLORED COPIES OF THE 1827 STATE, WITH SOME BROWNING AND PRINT THROUGH, WITH ACQUISITION NUMBERS OF SW015-TFI AND MDHR #s OF G1399-598 AND G1399-619, RESPECTIVELY. HFC HAS A GOOD COPY OF THE REENGRAVED EDITION PUBLISHED BY J.H. HINTON IN 1831 WITH AN HFC ACQ. # OF BB023-DNF AND A MDHR # OF G1399-170. HFC ALSO HAS A FULL SIZE BLACK AND WHITE REPRODUCTION OF THE L.C. COPY OF THE 1832 STATE, WITH A MDHR # OF G1399-347.
BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : MATHEWS, E.B., BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY OF MARYLAND, MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BALTIMORE, JULY 1897, P. 363 (1824 STATE);PHILLIPS, P.L., A LIST OF MAPS OF AMERICA IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, 1901, P. 986 (1824 STATE); RISTOW, W.W., AMERICAN MAPS AND MAPMAKERS, WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, DETROIT, 1985, PP. 268-270, 303-4; SABIN, JOSEPH, A DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA, VOL. VIII, J. SABIN & SONS, NEW YORK, 1875, # 31965 AND 31966.
October 27, 1988
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