Map

Collection object


1987.0137
Folded: L. 17.1 x W. 9.9 x T. 0.6
Map, Quarter Inch (four miles to the inch), in cloth cover. Cover, dark green, with rounded corners: (top, five lines) / Bacon's / Cycling / Road-Map / (decoration / (serrated line) / Ireland / South-West / (serrated line) / (right) All Main Roads / Specially Coloured. / (wavy line) / In Cloth Case, 1s. net. / (wavy line) / (left, drawing, of man and woman on bicycles, tree behind) / J. D. Hannan, / Bookseller and Stationer, Limerick. / (bottom, five lines). 6 pp booklet, first page stuck to inside cover, also 5 - 6 pp missing from inside of booklet, which consists of information, index, advertising. Rust marks from two staples (missing). Top left corner of map stuck to inside of back cover. Spine of cover, Bacon's Map of Ireland - South-West. Map: Top, New "Quarter-Inch" Cycling Road Maps of Ireland / reduced by permission from the new Ordnance Survey. Bottom, left, G.W. Bacon & Co., Ltd., 127 Strand, London, bottom right, Copyright - John Bartholomew & Co., Edin(burgh).