The Seat of War in Virginia – Sheet 3. Original antique map by Edward Weller. Published by the Weekly Despatch Atlas in 1863.

Original antique steel engraving
Engraved by E. Weller
Published by the Weekly Dispatch Atlas, 1863
With original colour

Edward Weller was a British engraver and cartographer who was one of the first to produce maps using lithography.

He was a London-based engraver, cartographer and publisher, working from offices in Red Lion Square and later, Bloomsbury, who produced detailed steel plate engraved maps.

The Weekly Despatch Atlas was published in parts between 1857 and 1863. The plates were then acquired by Cassell who published the collection as an atlas in 1863. A second edition was published in 1865. The plates were later purchased by G W Bacon, who re-issued the maps in 1876.