James Pigot (d.1843) began as an engraver and printer in Manchester before moving to London. In 1811 he began his own business and concentrated from 1822 on publishing directories of the whole country. In 1826-27 he published one of the Home Counties which was according to the title ’embellished with a new series of Elegant Maps …’. An advert in 1829 indicated that the full series of maps were available bound up separately as the ‘British Atlas’. Perhaps following his partnership with Isaac Slater in 1839, this set of reduced sized maps was issued in fortnightly parts. The final work was issued as ‘A Pocket Topography’. This is a very fine example of the first edition. Beresiner pp. 177-80; Burden, Eugene (2000) ‘A Pocket Topography … by Pigot & Co.’, in IMCoS Journal no. 80 pp. 39-45; Carroll 108; refer Chubb 463.