Reisz T. Csaba: Magyarország általános térképének elkészítése a 19. század első évtizedében - Lipszky János és segítői térképészeti vállalkozásának ismertetése (Budapest, 2002)
IDEGEN NYELVŰ ÖSSZEFOGLALÓK - The Making of Hungary’s First General Map in the first Decade of the 19th Century. The Cartographic Enterprise of János Lipszky
ate provisions relating to Karacs’s fee, who received 500 forints per plate, while Prixner did not have to carry out copy drawing and was still entitled to 600 forints per plate. According to the article by György Gyurikovits, the two engravers received even higher remuneration. Publication As even the literature cannot provide a uniform description about the map’s circumstances of publication, it seems necessary to record facts obtained from sources and research. The map was not only done in Pest in its tide, as some suggest, but also in reality. Document pertaining to Lipszky’s housing affairs show that Lipszky rented three rooms from his landlord: two rooms for himself and one for the press and print. As evidenced by carefully detailed accounts, no separate fee was paid to a printer; therefore it is likely that printing was either done by Lipszky himself or by his direct colleagues (perhaps servant). It was only during the printing of the Tabula generalis in 1810 that payment for a printer appears among the accounts. At this time, Lipszky was already out of town performing service in the regiment. The chapter, relying on literature, briefly describes the conditions of malting the copper engraving. Literature also contains reference, based on speculative calculations, to the number of print copies of the Lipszky-map. These calculations are based on the general technical capacities of copper engraving; therefore the chapter contains a summary of contemporary reproduction procedures’ details and quantity limits. The majority of literature defines the number of prints made from copper engravings at 1,500 to 4,000 copies (for prints of a cartographic nature). Johannes Dörflinger Viennese professor estimates the copies to be in the range of 500 to 5,000, based primarily on data from cartographic publishers. János Lipszky’s registers, which provide useful information for establishing the number of copies made from maps units, indicate the date, number of copies and the type of paper used for copies, persons involved in the distribution process as well as the cost of the entire undertaking. These data are found in the annexes. The number of map copies is estimated to be in the range of 1,800 to 2,100 copies, as differing amounts were produced from individual map units. (The highest number of copies, 2,088, were made from unit VIII — obviously because parts of this unit were used in various advertisements and official letters as a sample of the entire undertaking.) The Repertorium was published in 1,200 copies, while about 1,500 copies were printed of the Tabula generalis. The primary material of the map was Swiss-made vellum (Schweizer velin): about 60-65 percent of all units were printed on this kind of paper. Only about 1-6 percent of units were printed on more expensive English vellum. In 1808—1809, after the completion of all plates, 22 full series were printed on this paper. Conse448
