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Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
Email: [email protected]
The original printed ‘Proposals for A New Set of Correct Maps’ by Charles Price (1679?-1733) and John Senex (1678-1740) which is better known by the name of Senex alone. The atlas has a complicated history. The proposed atlas was to ‘contain 20 Maps … of two Sheets each, Imperial Paper, 29 Inches one Way, and 42 Inches the other’. Following the dissolution of the partnership between Jeremiah Seller and Charles Price in 1705, Price continued in partnership with John Senex with whom they had been collaborating. Price and Senex operated ‘from their house in Whites-Alley, Colemand Street’. Subscriptions were to be taken by several shops including that of Timothy Brandreth (fl.1707-12) and George Willdey (1676?-1737) who had started their business in 1707 selling spectacles.
Although undated, the first advertisement announced the work in the ‘Daily Courant’ for 24 September 1707. The first maps were published shortly after. Soon in financial trouble they were joined by John Maxwell (fl.1707-14) in the project from about 1709. This did not however solve the financial problems. Around 1710 the plates produced so far were split between the partners Price and Senex. Price left to join Brandreth and Willdey who set about completing a similar atlas which was first advertised in the ‘Post Man’ for 23-25 August 1711. Senex and Maxwell advertised theirs in the ‘Spectator’ for 1 October 1711, these early issues lacked any title. The first title page bore both their imprints and is dated 1714. Senex eventually took control of the atlas which went on to be successful with issues following his death in 1740 by his widow, and then the Bowles family of publishers.
These proposals state that ‘Subscriptions taken by Charles Price, at the Archimedes and Globe in Ludgate-Street … by T. Brandreth and G.Weildey [sic]’. Provenance: Bloomsbury Book Auctions 26 May 1994 lot 242; Burden collection. Shirley (1993) no. 497 and Addenda at the beginning; Shirley (2004) T.Sell 4a no. 1 & T.Sell 7a; Sotheby’s Wardington sale 10 October 2006 lots 462 & 463; Tooley’s Dictionary (1999-2004); Tyacke (1978) pp. 136-8, 142, & 146-8; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).
Although undated, the first advertisement announced the work in the ‘Daily Courant’ for 24 September 1707. The first maps were published shortly after. Soon in financial trouble they were joined by John Maxwell (fl.1707-14) in the project from about 1709. This did not however solve the financial problems. Around 1710 the plates produced so far were split between the partners Price and Senex. Price left to join Brandreth and Willdey who set about completing a similar atlas which was first advertised in the ‘Post Man’ for 23-25 August 1711. Senex and Maxwell advertised theirs in the ‘Spectator’ for 1 October 1711, these early issues lacked any title. The first title page bore both their imprints and is dated 1714. Senex eventually took control of the atlas which went on to be successful with issues following his death in 1740 by his widow, and then the Bowles family of publishers.
These proposals state that ‘Subscriptions taken by Charles Price, at the Archimedes and Globe in Ludgate-Street … by T. Brandreth and G.Weildey [sic]’. Provenance: Bloomsbury Book Auctions 26 May 1994 lot 242; Burden collection. Shirley (1993) no. 497 and Addenda at the beginning; Shirley (2004) T.Sell 4a no. 1 & T.Sell 7a; Sotheby’s Wardington sale 10 October 2006 lots 462 & 463; Tooley’s Dictionary (1999-2004); Tyacke (1978) pp. 136-8, 142, & 146-8; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).