Benedikz, Phyllis M., Durham topographical prints up to 1800 (Durham, University Library, 1968)
Durham before the Ordnance Survey, unpublished exhibition catalogue of maps (Durham, University Library, 199?)
Durham Art Gallery, Durham Cathedral artists and images: Durham Cathedral as a visual image, an exhibition to celebrate the 900th anniversary of Durham Cathedral (Durham, 1993)
Durham County Library, Maps of Durham: a catalogue (Durham, 1950, rev. 1960-[69]), duplicated typescript
Durham County Record Office, Durham places in the mid-nineteenth century: an index to the Ordnance Survey, first edition, 6 inches to 1 mile maps (Durham, 1996)
Hall, Marshall, The artists of Northumbria: an illustrated dictionary of Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham and North East Yorkshire; painters, sculptors and engravers born between 1625 and 1900, 2nd ed. (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1982)
Hedley, Gill, The picturesque tour in Northumberland and Durham, c.1720-1830, Tyne and Wear Museums exhibition catalogue (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1982)
Hill, D., In Turner's footsteps: through the hills and dales of Northern England (1984)
Hunt, C.J., The book trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860 (Newcastle, 1975), and supplement by P.J. Wallis (1981)
Jones, Derek, Durham Cathedral: topographical prints from 16th to 20th centuries (Sunderland, Sunderland Art Gallery, 1969)
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Meadows, Peter, Lost houses of County Durham (Welburn, 1993)
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Lister, Raymond, How to identify old maps and globes with a list of cartographers, engravers, publishers and printers concerned with printed maps from c.1500 to c.1850 (London, 1965)
Karrow, R.W., Mapmakers of the sixteenth century and their maps (Chicago, 1993)
Brown, Philip A.H., London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870 (London, 1982)
Bryan, Michael, Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers (5 vols, London 1903-4)
Engen, R.K., Dictionary of Victorian engravers, print publishers, and their works (Cambridge, 1979)
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Garton, Robin, ed., British printmakers, 1855-1955 (Devizes, 1992)
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Russell, Ronald, Guide to British topographical prints (Newton Abbot, 1979)
Includes useful appendices of lists of books illustrated with prints, painters and draughtsmen, and engravers, etchers, and lithographers
Dictionaries of the printers & booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland 1557-1775, by H. Plomer and others (London, 1972)
Convenient collection in one vol. of several dictionaries originally published separately
Maxted, I., The British book trades 1710-1777: an index of masters and apprentices (Exeter, 1983)
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Todd, W.B., A directory of printers & others in allied trades: London and vicinity 1800-1840 (London, 1972)
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British book trade index experimental printout (Wylam, 1991)
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v.1. Atlases published 1704 to 1742, and their later editions
v.2. ------- 1743 to 1763
v.3. ------- 1764-1789
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Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum (3 vols. London, 1844)
For Durham, vol.1 pp. 338-358
(indexes can be helpful for dating purposes)
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