The engraving room is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5. Commissions for the winter ledger close 14 December. Every plate on this site is a work of fiction, made for a demonstration catalogue.  The engraving room is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5. Commissions for the winter ledger close 14 December. Every plate on this site is a work of fiction, made for a demonstration catalogue.  
Meridian & Co. CARTOGRAPHERS, 1898

The archive, restrike

The Collection

Six plates restrike from the house archive, each printed on the press that printed it first. Prices include the margin notes and the surveyor's doubts. Impressions are numbered on the verso in pencil, in the hand of whoever pulled them.

SALTWICK REACH · SURVEY OF 1926

Plate 41

Saltwick Reach

The harbour approach every pilot in the family has memorised, re-engraved from the 1926 plate with the sandbanks of that spring exactly where they sat.

1926 · 2nd state £480
THE LONG SOUND · TIDAL ATLAS PLATE IX

Plate 87

The Long Sound

Nine miles of tidal water compressed onto one plate, with the flood stream drawn as it was rowed and timed, hour by hour, across a single winter.

1931 · 1st state £620
THE INLAND SEA · WARTIME REVISION, 1948

Plate 132

The Inland Sea

Drawn in pencil on the back of a ration book in 1943, engraved in peace five years later, down to the staithe posts and the oyster beds.

1948 · 1st state £540
WINTER FAIRWAY · ICE LIMITS, SEASON OF 1959

Plate 419

Winter Fairway

The coldest season in harbour memory, charted buoy by buoy: which marks froze in, which broke loose, and which ones the ice took entirely.

1959 · 2nd state £460