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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: enquiries@caburden.com
Christopher Greenwood (1786-1855) and his brother John Greenwood (1791-1867) were both surveyors. Christopher Greenwood was from Yorkshire, he settled in Wakefield by about 1815 before moving to London in 1818. His first large-scale survey was of Yorkshire published in 1817. His brother John joined forces in 1821. Along with the distribution capabilities of George Pringle and Son, they made an immediate impact with their series of large scale surveys of many English counties.
Following the extensive work carried out by them on these, a reduced sized atlas was planned. It was advertised in 1828 to appear in four parts at three guineas per part and began as early as 1829, the date recorded on 11 of the plates. There were to be 46 plates, all at the scale of one-third of an inch to a mile. They ran into financial difficulties towards the end and had to take in partners to finish in 1834. Indeed, Christopher was imprisoned for debt in the same year.
‘For detail, general accuracy and balance allied to high quality engraving and colouring these sheets are probably the finest ever single sheet maps of the counties’ (Carroll). The maps are reductions of Greenwood’s large scale maps of the counties as stated except for those of Bucks, Cambridge, Hereford, Hertford, Norfolk and Oxford which they did not survey. Studies of individual counties show many were improved with new detail on a regular basis. Provenance: Donald Hodson collection. Carroll (1996) 102; Chubb (1927) 458b; Tooley (1999-2004); Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).
GREENWOOD, Christopher & John
Atlas of the Counties of England, from Actual Surveys made from the years 1817-33
Greenwood & Co., Burleigh Street, Strand, London, 1834
Large folio (655 x 425 mm.), contemporary half calf, blue cloth boards, gilt panelled, with red calf gilt panelled title affixed to upper board, spine with ornate gilt raised bands and blind decorated compartments, marbled endpapers, light wear. With engraved title-page containing an early wash coloured map of England and Wales, 46 double-page early wash coloured engraved maps by J. and J. Neale, J. and C. Walker and others, Chester, Derby, Stafford, Shropshire, Worcester, Warwick, Buckingham, Gloucester with lower centrefold splits, first and last plate with minor crease, otherwise a good example.
Stock number: 9593
£ 3,250