Description
Monmouthshire Wales antique map. Antique map of Monmouthshire Wales published 1885. Map includes: Monmouth, Abergavenny, Bedwelty, Chepstow, Skenfrith, Pontypool, Raglan, Trelleck, Caerleon, Newport, Christchurch, Ebbw Vale, Usk. Published in the Report of the Boundary Commissioners for England and Wales, 1885. Zincographed map produced by R. Owen Jones, Royal Engineers for Ordinance Survey. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London. Usual binders folds. A nice clean map without any foxing. Separate text will be provided where available.
The Boundary Commissions in the United Kingdom are non-departmental public bodies responsible for determining the boundaries of constituencies for elections to the House of Commons,
The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict., c. 23) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equally populated constituencies, a concept in the broader global context termed equal apportionment, in an attempt to equalise representation across the UK. It was associated with, but not part of, the Reform Act 1884 .
Zincography was a planographic printing process that used zinc plates. Alois Senefelder first mentioned zinc’s lithographic use as a substitute for Bavarian limestone in his 1801 English patent specifications. In 1834, Federico Lacelli patented a zincographic printing process, producing large maps called géoramas. In 1837-1842, Eugène-Florent Kaeppelin perfected the process to create a large polychrome geologic map.
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