Sheet 26 - Bartholomew's "Half Inch to Mile" Map of England & Wales - Essex
The standard cover design, and now the more common colour, for the Bartholomew's "New Reduced Survey for Tourists and Cyclists", Sheet 26 Essex.
Explanatory note in the bottom right corner that defines Through Route, First Class, Secondary (Good) and Indifferent (Passable) classes of roads. The note now states that the scale is 1:126,720, ie corrected since the preceding map.
Scale of 6 miles = 76.7mm, or 2.0 miles/inch, ie 1:126,720.
Roads specially revised for Touring Cyclists. John Bartholomew & Co.
The railway lines now include the Thaxted branch (opened 1914).
The map has a revised price of 4/- stuck over pre-printed 3/6 price. Map has code A14, ie printed first half of 1914. An advert refers to prices of 1/6; 3/- ; 4/- - which started in 1920, so the map could have been published a long time after the map was printed.