Send us your name and email address.
We'll add you to our subscriber list and alert you to new catalogues and similar news
Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
Email: enquiries@caburden.com
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 state. Provenance: with bookplate of R. H. Johnstone; sold Sotheby’s 20 September 2001 lot 45. 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 110 mm.), contemporary half calf marble papered boards, with gilt title label to upper board, rebacked with modern endpapers. Light wear to the corners. 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.
Stock number: 6216
SOLD