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Somerset

In his History of the QTP (1987) Carr reported having published two editions of a map of Somerset. Two editions have been seen, one of 500 sheets the other of 502 sheets. For no good reason other than Carr may have changed the number of sheets slightly when he issued a second edition, I have ordered them thus.


(Last updated on 2/2/2025)



MAP-SOM1: First edition


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

Year: May 1971 (date ISBN registered)

ISBN: 0900847158

Limitation: 500 sheets

Size: not known

Signed: Yes

Proofs where: Ebay

Notes: The red highlights are probably added by hand in watercolours


Image of map

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Photo of limitation

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MAP-SOM2: Second edition


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

Year: September 1975 (date ISBN registered)

ISBN: 0900847484

Limitation: 502 sheets

Size: 518 x 582 mm (proof sheet)

Paper: thin white card

Colophon: sun face with address and Northamptonshire, lower right corner

Signed: No

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

Notes: The figures either side of the title and the carving below have been hand-painted in a brown wash (see detail below). The flower, lower right, may also have been decorated in water colours as the colours are different from anywhere else on the map.


Image of map

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Photo of limitation

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