Garbutt’s 1970 Quad Royal Station Map British Empire Exhibition 101 x 26 cm

101 x 26 cm

The map was published in Sir George Leonard Staunton's ‘An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China’

Green publisher’s cloth with Survey of India crest (pre- and post-Independence according to date) blocked in gilt on the front covers

many are printed in colours

Garbutt’s 1970 Quad Royal Station Map British Empire Exhibition 101 x 26 cmGarbutt believed he had rescued the London Underground map from the clutches of Harold Hutchison and his ham fisted parody of Becks designs. His basic configuration proved extremely durable, featuring a thermos flask shaped Circle Line, horizontal Central Line and vertical Northern Line, but with effective use of diagonals which helped return the map closer to geographical reality than Becks later rectilinear designs. Roberts suggests that it works