Garbutt’s 1970 Quad Royal Station Map British Empire Exhibition

Garbutt’s 1970 Quad Royal Station Map British Empire ExhibitionGarbutt believed he had rescued the London Underground map from the clutches of Harold Hutchison and his ham fisted parody of Becks designs. His basic configuration proved extremely durable, featuring a thermos flask shaped Circle Line, horizontal Central Line and vertical Northern Line, but with effective use of diagonals which helped return the map closer to geographical reality than Becks later rectilinear designs. Roberts suggests that it works

conjugate wormhole at centrefold

Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 1874

The map was published in Sir George Leonard Staunton's ‘An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China’

many are printed in colours

He seems to have regarded himself

and is possibly the first issue showing the whole operating area of the recently formed London Passenger Transport Board

Merbat Bay and Kishin Bay

Map of the Franco-German frontier

the latter linked speculatively to New Guinea

101 x 26 cm

Green publisher’s cloth with Survey of India crest (pre- and post-Independence according to date) blocked in gilt on the front covers

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