what year is the gift wrap map??

Luckily the tube map underwent some noticeable stylistic changes back then! Maxwell Roberts has a sight about tube map collection with examples that should help you. But like slugabed I'd love to see a copy!

I must confess to owning a large collection of A-Zs and other atlases (atli?) of London....these were usually undated,and often didn't even have edition numbers to aid dating....the Diagram of Lines is often the easiest way to date one printed earlier than the nineties.
As Ben says,there were quite radical changes,and most years a detail change,so a fairly accurate date is possible.

Does the Northern City Branch stop at Finsbury Pk or Drayton Pk (DP to FP closed 1964)
Is Barbican called Aldersgate (renamed 1968...)

that stops at finsbury park



yes it is...

For the purposes of comparison try this History of tube maps which may be of some help.

The version used seems to be the poster version, not the pocket version. As such it will be a different drawing; not necessarily 1963.

Having said that, going by one detail I can see which is missing from the corresponding 1963 pocket map but present in the 1962 pocket map (South Ruislip BR interchange), I'd speculate that this was the Quad-Royal design from 1962. There are still differences, such as the side of the line that the station name 'Plaistow' appears for example.

It would also appear that Max Roberts catagocia collection of maps to look out for is now offline. A pity, it was authoritive on very subtle differences.

District to Hounslow is present on the one linked to.

It appears to be the short-lived Harrison version, the first not designed by Beck, and over which he was very angry. The square symbols for BR interchanges were, I think, unique to that design.

It was the first tube map I remember, as it was the one in the back of my mother's old Lett's diary, and was what first kindled my interest in the Underground. The diary version, as I recall, was truncated at the eastern and western ends to fit the square (rather than landscape) format of a double page spread, with arrows pointing towards Hounslow, Upminster, Chesham/Amersham/Watford, and Uxbridge, and Epping/Ongar/Hainault. I remember being quite surprised, on first seeing the full map a few years later, to see the shape of the Hainault loop.

A pedant writes: it's the Harold F. Hutchison map, not Harrison. As stated, it was used from 1961-64. Hideous, isn't it?