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County Palatine of Lancaster or Lancashire

In his History of the QTP (1987) Carr reported two editions of maps of Lancashire. Three maps are known: one of the County Palatine of Lancaster and two of the County Palatine of Lancashire. The maps published in 1977 and 1980 are unusual in that they are the same design, only the limitation has been changed.


(Last updated on 7/12/2020)



MAP-LAN1: First edition: County Palatine of Lancaster


Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering

Year: 1971 or 1972

ISBN: 090084728X

Limitation: 572 sheets

Size: 549 x 375 mm

Paper: thin white card

Colophon: sun face with address, lower right corner

Signed: Yes

Proofs where: Kettering Public Library (proof); AH (map)

Notes: The ISBN was registered in 1971 but the number of sheets (572) suggest that it was published in 1972.

This map is dedicated to those Lancashire men and women known to its designer.


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MAP-LAN2.1: Second edition, first impression: Lancashire


Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering

Year: 1977

ISBN: none

Limitation: 777 sheets

Size: 632 x 446 mm

Colophon: sun face next to address, lower left, to right of limitation

Signed: Yes

Proofs where: AH (map)

Notes: This map is dedicated to those resolute young men of the Lancashire Fusileers waiting to cross to the Normandy beaches who, after these many years, I seem still to hear singing in a little south coast chapel.


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MAP-LAN2.2: Second edition, second impression: Lancashire


Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering

Year: 1980

ISBN: none

Limitation: 980 sheets

Size: 605 x 445 mm

Signed: Yes

Proofs where: Kettering Public Library (map)

Notes: This is the same design as the map above except that the land is printed with a pale green background and the limitation has been changed.

An unsigned proof numbered 488, possibly not in Carr's hand, was advertised on eBay in February 2021.


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