Map - Yorkshire

Yorkshire

Yorkshire is Carr's native county, so he knew a lot about it. In his History of the QTP (1987) Carr reported that a sixth edition was current, but there may be seven editions. Carr sent a proof of the second edition, designed in 1971, to the British Library. Carr modified the basic design of the map of 1971 for the later editions by changing the design or crest at the top right corner and the design on the lower right corner for the limitation or dedication. The basic content of the map remained the same including the bull to the left and the lighthouse to the right. Of the maps seen, only the edition of 1982 has a title of Yorkshire; in all the others the county is not labelled.

What I think is the third edition has been seen in two different impressions: a map printed in colours, so for sale, but without the limitation text underneath the oval decoration of flowers in the bottom right; and a proof with the limitation. I suspect that the limitation was added when Carr reprinted the map to commemorate the 100th anniversary of building the Methodist Chapel at Sherburn-in-Elmet.

My thanks to Tim Dean for images of two maps from his collection.

(Last updated on 27/04/2023)

MAP-YOR1: First edition

Publisher: J.L. Carr

Year: 26th August 1968

ISBN: 0900847026

Limitation: 500 sheets, under the colophon; numbered at lower right corner under First edition number

Size: 440 x 565 mm

Paper: white paper

Colophon: sun face with address in lower left, between shield and angel

Signed: yes, in lower right corner; the limitation is under the colophon

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

Notes: The colouring on the map shown left is done by hand, so every map is likely to be different. The framed proof in Kettering Library, which is not numbered, is uncoloured, so is probably rare.

The quotation at the base is: Where there is no vision people perish. After this Carr has written: which was my father's favourite text and there are worse.

Image of map (click to enlarge)

Detail of edition showing hand colouring (click to enlarge)

Detail of limitation (click to enlarge) (click to enlarge)

MAP-YOR2: Second edition

Publisher: J.L. Carr

Year: 1971

Limitation: 571

Size: 522 x 588 mm

Paper: white wove

Colophon: Sun face with full address

Signed: Beneath limitation, to left of colophon

Proofs where: British Library, number 49; AH

Notes: Edition of 571 sheets to celebrate the Roman foundation of York in the year 71.

Quotation at base: 'The Lorde governeth me and no thing shall faile to me: in the place of pasture there he hath set me. He nurischide me on the water of refreshing: He convertide my soule. He led me forth on the path of riztfulness for his name.' From the first translation of the Bible into English by John Wyclif of Hipswell in the North Riding. He was later excluded from Oxford University and the Bishop of Lincoln burnt his bones & threw them in a Leicestershire stream.

Image of map (click to enlarge)

Detail of limitation (click to enlarge)

MAP-YOR3.1: Third edition, 1st impression?

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

Year: 1972 (but ISBN registered in 1975)

Limitation: none stated

Size: 530 x 500 mm

Paper:

Colophon: Sun face

Signed: no

Proofs where: TD

Notes:

This map has no written limitation, unlike the almost identical proof shown immediately below, which suggests that it was issued first, before the text was added. The colophon is also slghtly lower on the sheet next to the roses than in the version below. Otherwise it seems to be the same.

Image of map

MAP-YOR3.2: Third edition, 2nd impression?

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

Year: 1972 (but ISBN registered in 1975)

Limitation: 572 sheets

Size: 520 x 570 mm (rough proof)

Paper: no information

Colophon: no information

Signed: no information

Proofs where: AH (proof)

Notes: The map illustrated is a proof.

This version was issued in an edition of 572 sheets to commemorate the thirteen hundreth anniversary of the foundation of Ripon Cathedral and the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the Methodist Chapel at Sherburn-in-Elmet.

Carr spent much of his childhood in Sherburn-in-Elmet, in the former Brittonic Kingdom of Elmet. The Methodist chapel, which opened on 27th April 1872, was demolished in 1986. A new chapel was built behind shops on the old site.

Full proof map

Detail of limitation on proof

MAP-YOR4: Fourth edition

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

Year: 1973

Limitation: 573 sheets

Size: 520 x 570 mm

Paper: no information (proof laid down on card)

Colophon: sun face with address to left of figure of Wilfred Rhodes

Signed: Yes, below colophon

Proofs where: AH (map)

Notes: An edition of 573 sheets in honour of Wilfred Rhodes, 1877-1973. The text below this has been corrected: 200 wickets has been changed in pen to 100.