Re: I need a wizard! who published the map

I have a feeling this particular illustration, known in the printing trades as a "cut" was used in numerous publications, both here in the US and as cited, in Europe. The bank note company is the one who created the original piece of work, hence the "eng'd" which means engraved by, and the original was engraved in wood by hand. From that original, multiple duplicates could be made in the form of electrotypes and those were sold to who ever wanted to buy one, or in the case of the original published work, may have been commissioned. This was at the very start of photoengraving in the 1880s that started making metal plates for printing, and the term "engraving" is still used in the trade to describe that product as well as "cut." This was the forerunner of today's electronic file and was the letterpress printer's version of clip art. Wood cuts were very common and there are people still making them today, more as art than in this case, cartographic work. The wax engraving process supplanted wood cuts for map making by the 1890s--dealing in letterpresss and its products is my day job.

Fritz