| Description | 3 complete sets and single sheets of the second edition of George Bellas GREENOUGH's 'Geological Map of England and Wales', officially issued in 1840, comprising:
Pattern copy, probably produced by James Gardner
1) [TS 2]. Pattern copy of the second edition, in six sheets in an atlas format, [1839-1840, watermarked 1838]. Each sheet is signed by Greenough and William Lonsdale.
2) TS 1d. Single sheet of a pattern copy of the second edition, South West sheet, [?1839-1840]. Like the above, it is signed by Greenough and William Lonsdale, mounted on canvas with marks of being bound into an atlas format. No watermark. Note: mistakenly marked as being from the first edition.
Complete set
3) TS 2a. 6 sheets + colour key, sectioned & mounted on linen. [Linen is weak and beginning to split along the folds.] NW sheet has wmk 1847
4) TS 2b. Joined into one sheet, mounted on linen & heavily varnished. Glued into binding, and beginning to split along folds. Is likely to have been on the wall at some point.
Single sheets
5) Title sheet and NW sheet [Scotland] of the second edition. Uncoloured, watermark on each sheet is 1856. [rolled and a bit sooty] |
| Administrative History | On 5 June 1839, Council requested that the President, William Buckland, set up a new Map Committee to oversee the production of the second edition of Greenough's 'Geological Map of England & Wales. The first meeting was held on 20 November 1839. Buckland appointed Henry Warburton, Greenough & John Taylor to committee. William Lonsdale was to act as secretary.
Although the second edition of the map has a publication date of 1 November 1839 it was officially issued, like the first edition before it, the following year.
In the meeting of the Map Committee, 4 December 1839 (GSL/COM/MA/1), it was 'Ordered that 25 copies be ordered and coloured immediately....[and] that the first two coloured copies, after being approved by Mr Greenough and attested by the signatures of Mr Lonsdale and Mr Gardner [the printer & colourist], be kept as standard copies, one at the House of the Society, and the other in the hands of Mr Gardner'. Neither copy of these standard or 'pattern' copies are signed by Gardner, possibly because these 25 copies were the only ones which he produced. Gardner announced his intention to immediately retire in January 1840 and the rest of the production was taken over by Arrowsmith.
The first official copy was presented to the Railway Commissioners by the direction of Greenough and Buckland. The second copy was delivered to Greenough and signed by him and Lonsdale as a pattern copy. The third copy was deposited with the Socity and again signed by Greenough and Lonsdale as a counterpart of the second copy.
A pattern copy was the approved version on which subsequent copies were based. The map continued to be produced in batches to order, hence later watermarks of the paper. |