Author: ORDNANCE SURVEY
Title: Ordnance Survey Map of Isles of Scilly. Fifth Relief Edition. Scale: Two Inches to One Mile. UNIQUE VARIANT OF THE FIRST POST-WAR OS COVER DESIGN
Description: Ordnance Survey, Southampton,, [1961]. Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 25.5 ins (approx. 56 x 65 cms) folding in 18 panels to 8.0 x 4.5 ins (approx. 20.0 x 11.5 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. UNIQUE VARIANT OF THE ELLIS MARTIN STANDARD COVER DESIGN. Martin created the 'wavy border' cover format in 1940. It it became the first OS post-war design, lasting with its various variants well into the 1960s. The Isles of Scilly Fifth Relief was first published in 1933; this is the 1961 reissue. It is a unique design variant, with blue border in long format on cream card. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Browne 96.2.b.c.

Keywords: topography, cartography, maps, ordnance survey, cardiff, severn, ellis martin


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