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SMITH, H. & C. T., and E. M. Woodford
Smith's Map of Hartford County, Connecticut
Philadelphia: 1855. Wall map, 70 x 50½ inches, in full period colour. Expertly restored, backed with modern linen, trimmed in maroon cloth, on contemporary rollers. Minor facsimile work in one of the upper insets. Save for some very light spotting, a lovely map, the colours bright and in original colour.
Rare. A splendid wall map of Hartford County, Connecticut.
The map is remarkably detailed, with each township separately coloured. Thompson notes that it "locates every building in the county, with names of owners marked, excepting with the city of Hartford." There are twenty finely engraved inset maps of county towns: Farmington, Rocky Hill, New Britain, Wethersfield, Glastonbury, South Glastonbury, Hartford, Windsor Locks, Suffield, Thompsonville, Broad Brook, Warehouse Point, Plainville, Cheneyville, Southington, Unionville, Collinsville, Hazardville, Plantsville, and Berlin. The entire map is surrounded by trelliswork panels that contain a series of thirty-one fine vignettes of prominent buildings and homes in the county. These include the State House in Hartford, the State Normal School in New Britain, the Connecticut Literary Institution in Suffield, and the home of Col. A. G. Hazard in Enfield. The map was based on surveys conducted by E.M. Woodford of West Avon, CT, and engraved and printed by Wagner & McGuigan of Philadelphia. Not in Phillips' America (though the single copy located by OCLC is at the Library of Congress), nor in Rumsey, who only notes a Smith wall map of New Haven County of 1856. Thompson locates three copies.
Thompson 164; Ristow, p.388. OCLC 46859550.
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