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Mr. Philip D. Burden
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James Wallis was an engraver and publisher in London. In about 1812 he first published ‘Wallis’s New Pocket Edition of the English Counties or Traveller’s Companion’. The maps are easily distinguished by the design of the title at the top of the map. They include a wealth of information with a key in the lower margin. In the first edition the maps bear no plate numbers which were duly added for the second of 1814. This is an example of the second with a couple of maps still in the earlier state. Provenance: Private English collection Beresiner (1983) pp. 234-7; Chubb (1927) 344.
WALLIS, James
Wallis's New Pocket Edition of the English Counties or Traveller's Companion
London, c.1812-[14]
Octavo (145 x 120 mm.), modern half calf, marbled boards, with gilt labels to upper board. With engraved title page, Address to the Public, general map of England and Wales and 43 maps of the counties including separate maps of North and South Wales (all single page with the exception of Yorkshire being a double, and the Isle of Wight a smaller plate). All in early wash colour. Some light soiling and oxidisation of colour.
Stock number: 6006
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