Victorian cab fare map of London

FRIEDRICHS, Joachim.

The Circuiteer. A Series of Distance Maps for All the Principal Towns in the United Kingdom. Invented by J. Friederichs to Serve as a Guide for Ascertaining Cab Fares, Porterage, &c.&c. ... No. 1 London.
London, c.1862. Colour lithograph, 490 x 670mm.

A very interesting map of London in which the city has been divided into circles in order to work out cab and porterage fares using a device invented by Friedrichs. Each circle represents a half-mile in diameter to allow the reader to ascertain the distance between two places.

HYDE 80.
Stock ID : 16042