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A Map of Barsetshire
1 7/8" x 1 3/8"Map is 3 3/8" x 4 5/8"
"...just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business and not suspecting that they were being made a show of."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"There is a county in the west of England not so full of life, indeed, nor so widely spoken of as some of its manufacturing leviathan brethren in the north, but which is, nevertheless, very dear to those who know it well. Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep and shady and--let us add--dirty lanes, its paths and stiles, its tawny-coloured, well-built rural churches, its avenues of beeches, and frequent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made it to its own inhabitants a favoured land of Goshen. It is purely agricultural; agricultural in its produce, agricultural in its poor, and agricultural in its pleasures. There are towns in it, of course .... But these towns add nothing to the importance of the county; dull, all but death-like single streets. Each possesses two pumps, three hotels, ten shops, fifteen beer-houses, a beadle, and a market-place.
Indeed, the town population of the county reckons for nothing when the importance of the county is discussed, with the exception, as before said, of the assize town, which is also a cathedral city. Herein a clerical aristocracy, which is certainly not without its due weight. A resident bishop, a resident dean, an archdeacon, three or four resident prebendaries, and all their numerous chaplains, vicars, and ecclesiastical satellites, do make up a society sufficiently powerful to be counted as something by the county squirearchy. In other respects the greatness of Barsetshire depends wholly on the landed powers."
- Anthony Trollope, DOCTOR THORNE
19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope's creation of the fictional county of Barsetshire, and its main city, Barchester, is one of the most wonderful artistic acts in literature. Trollope chronicled the life of the region in six novels published between 1855 and 1867. This little map, designed in the 19th century style, contains most of the locations mentioned in the novels.
Bound in metallic blue lizard paper, and lined with yellow paper printed with red fleur-de-lys. The map itself is in an attached folder made of the same lizard paper. The portfolio has paper titles pasted to the front, back, and spine.
This product was added to our catalog October 24, 2009
$36.00