Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas
The Atlas was first published in 1837 (Essex is dated 1835), and then several times to 1871 (or later), as Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas (1850 to 1880), as Walker's Fox Hunting Atlas (up to 1895) and as Lett's Popular Atlas (1884 & 87). These examples are all from Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas - all using an underlying 1849 map for their lithographic transfers.
"By J & C Walker" under cartouche, but no imprint along the bottom.
No. 12 in small font at top right and bottom right outside the border.
1. First type of Hunt map, with clear cross-page references.
Being Hunt maps, no Hundreds or Parliamentary Boroughs or Divisions are shown, although the Hundreds' names are still present in a table as well as the listings of parliamentary boroughs, places of election and polling places (7 north and 7 south). The Divisions are still named on the map, but are uncoloured with just a faint dashed line for the boundary. Major roads have a thicker line on one side but all roads uncoloured.
The Compass rose is in the North Sea, just west of list of Polling Places.
Scale of 1+12 miles = 83mm, or 4.0 miles/inch; actual scale = 3.9 miles/inch, or 1:250,000.
Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas, with 6 Hunt names stencilled with manual infill, and with page cross-references for Puckeridge and Essex & Suffolk Hunts. Hunts edge-coloured and very pale colour wash.
There is no date on the map, but from the red lines I estimate it was also sold in 1849.
2. Second type of Hunt map, with faint cross-page references.
Black quad lines (with no red) for Marks Tey to Sudbury (authorised 1846; opened 1849), for Sudbury to Bury and Clare to Bury (1847; 1865), and for Chapel to Halstead (opened 1860); also for the Grosvenor House-Red House & Ilford-Red House, plus Red House to Epping (missing Loughton) - all authorised 1846, but never built. The faint pecked black line from Romford to Thames Haven Docks has no red overlay. Places are named in Kent - plus a railway drawn in red over a black pecked line, labelled "Woolwich North and Kent Railway" (1837; 1849).
Dissected map backed onto hard red boards (shown above), taken from Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas (but not bearing that name anywhere), with 6 Hunt names stencilled with manual infill, with faint page cross-references for Puckeridge and Essex & Suffolk Hunts. Hunts edge-coloured and very pale colour wash.
3. Third type of Hunt map, with printed in-fill.
Railway lines as above.
There is no date on the map, but from the red lines I estimate it was also sold in 1849.
Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas, with 6 Hunt names stencilled with printed infill (& without page cross-references), but with extremely feint ghosted page cross-references for Puckeridge and Essex & Suffolk Hunts. Hunts edge-coloured and very pale colour wash.
4. Fourth type of Hunt map, with printed names.
Black quad lines to Hythe (authorised 1846; opened 1847) now have a red overlay, but otherwise as above.
There is no date on the map, but from the red lines I estimate it was also sold in 1850.
Hobson's Fox Hunting Atlas, with 6 Hunt names printed, but without page cross-references, but with some of the old stencilled letters still visible. Hunts edge-coloured and very pale colour wash.
There is no date on the map, but from the red lines I estimate it was also sold in 1856.
The black quad lines from Marks Tey to Sudbury (1846; 1849) now has a red overlay; the Grosvenor House-Redhouse & Ilford-Red House, plus Red House to Epping (missing Loughton) - all authorised 1846 but never built) are still in black quad lines, but additionally there is a red line (with no underlay) from Layton to Loughton (1853; 1856). There is a red line (with no underlay) from Ilford to Tilbury (1852; 1854) and on to Southend (1852; 1856), but the route is rather inaccurate.