This is the complete text of the Foreword to the 1982 reproduction.

This is a complete reproduction of the Map of Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, 1858. The original map, pictured on the preceding page, is a large wall map measuring some twenty-five square feet. It is reproduced here in its entirety on 60 separate pages.

True to the original, orientation is to magnetic north. (In a subsequent printing, the same map was oriented to true north,) The twenty-five pages of town maps are reproduced at the original scale of one and one-quarter inches to the mile. Village detail maps are enlarged by one-half for clarity (the "downtown" portion of Manchester is reduced for the present format, and that of Nashua is at the original scale). Some retouching has been necessary to improve legibility. The eleven engravings are reproduced at the scale of the original.