Quarter Mile Radius Map of Monument Station Publisher(s)_Thomas Page and Wyatt’s ink ownership stamp

and Wyatt’s ink ownership stamp to free endpaper

This map of Middlesex is illustrated with vignettes of Buckingham Palace (before its early 20th century re-modelling) and the ‘new’ Houses of Parliament (then under construction

Printed label of J

Pour Servir à l’Histoire Generale des Voyages

Pencilled inscription on pastedown: D

Quarter Mile Radius Map of Monument Station Publisher(s)_Thomas Page and Wyatt’s ink ownership stampDistrict within mile radius [of] Monument Stanfords was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, with a lucrative Ordnance Survey contract. In the late 1920s Stanfords began supplying the Underground with small runs of maps for local display, based on the Ordnance Survey and confined to a quarter mile radius from each station. They were printed in very low numbers: in this instance just 100 examples.