A beautiful example of A. J. Johnson’s 1862 map of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania.  Offers a fascinating snapshot of these north-south borderlands shortly following the outbreak of the American Civil War.   Map shows all four states in full with color coding according to county.  This is the last edition of this Johnson map to feature an undivided Virginia.    Engraved decorative views depicting the “University of Virginia,” “Richmond,” and “Fortress Monroe” decorate the upper left, lower left and lower right hand quadrants, respectively.  Features the strapwork style border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1860 to 1863. Published by A. J. Johnson and Ward as plate numbers 32 and 33 in the 1862 edition of  Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas .  This is the first edition of the Johnson’s  Atlas  to bear the Johnson &amp; Ward imprint.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alvin_J._Johnson" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alvin J. Johnson"><span title="19th century United-States cartographer">Alvin Jewett Johnson</span></a>
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1862 (undated)
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