Monday, 1 December 2025

 APPENDIX IV - White 12 - Hampshire with Isle of Wight


Title Page from Princeton University copy at Hathi Trust




The Maps


White 12

 

 

 

Hampshire and Isle of Wight,

 

1859

 No copy identified. Assumed to be much as below but lacking some improvements.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight

2nd

1878

Title top left written in a variety of different scripts: White´s New Map of Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. Carefully Reduced from the Ordnance Survey and Improvements. For the History, Gazetteer and Directory Published by William White, 18 & 20 Bank Street, Sheffield 1878.

Includes coat of Arms top centrally, and two attractive vignette views of Winchester Cathedral (bottom left) and Osborne House (bottom right). 
Four ancient seals of cities are shown in the corners.
No artist or engraver´s signature.





Hampshire 1878 - image copyright Kit Batten. 

Sections from 1878 map


Title panel dated 1878




View of Osborne House on I-o-W


Locations of Copies

Column 3. Date of first edition (red) and subsequent editions.

Column 4. Notes on title page (or Preface) concerning Price and / or inclusion of maps. Extant copies of the directory in national institutions are then listed (using JISC Discover): Blue bold signifies copy is available on-line (click to access), underlined signifies a map is referred to in the JISC Discover listing for that institute.

Princeton HT is the copy at Princeton University available at Hathi Trust.

UoL SC is the University of Leicester Special Collections (they don´t indicate source of the online volume).


White 12

 

 

 

Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight
 
1859
In one volume with a large map of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. No price.

Victoria and Albert Museum libraries

[copy B lacks pp. 595-596 and map.]
British Library
University of Cambridge Libraries

Institute of Historical Research Library

Lambeth Palace Library
University of Leicester
National Library of Scotland
Natural History Museum Library
University of Oxford (2 copies)
Senate House Library, 
University of London 
University of Southampton Library (3 copies)
The National Archives Library
Trinity College Dublin
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
 
1878
Price only.
British Library
National Library of Scotland
University of Aberdeen Libraries
Natural History Museum Library
University of Oxford
Author´s collection (illustrated)

 

 

 

 




THE MAPS – Maps produced for William White´s county directories

Note 1: Go to the following pages for details of the following maps

Appendix I. Description of the maps in the Directory of Yorkshire (Baines 1);
Appendix II. Description of the maps in the Directory of Lancashire (Baines 2);
Appendix III. Description of the maps in the Directory of Durham and Northumberland (White 1 - William White and William Parson).

White 2Cumberland & Westmorland 

White 3 - Nottinghamshire

White 4 - Staffordshire

White 5 - Norfolk

White 6 - Yorkshire (later editions)

White 7 - Lincoln

White 8 - Suffolk

White 9 - Leicestershire with Rutland

White 10 - Essex

White 11 - Devonshire

White 12 - Hampshire with Isle of Wight

White´s city directories



William White´s Directories:


Click the entry below to access relevant page.


1. Early Years - William White and Edward Baines
2. William White & Co.
3. Rivalry and Family Feud
4. Francis White
5. Maps
6. William White Co. - Later Years


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