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Mr. Philip D. Burden
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The first edition of this atlas was published in 1829 and the title page of this example states that the ‘whole [is] carefully revised & corrected to the year, 1842’, the last known edition. In fact the first true use of the plates was in Robert Rowe’s ‘English Atlas’ published in 1816. Only two examples of that atlas survive. Rowe (c.1775-1843) is recorded as an engraver and it is possible that he was responsible for these plates. It was Henry Teesdale (fl.1828-45) however who made the most use of them with the ‘New British Atlas’ being published through 1842. Provenance: from a private English Collection. Beresiner pp. 190 & 227-9; Carroll 71; not in Chubb.
TEESDALE, Henry
Improved Edition of the New British Atlas, Containing a Complete Set of County Maps, On Which are Delineated all the Principal Cross Roads, Cities, Towns and most considerable Villages
Henry Teesdale & Co. 302, Holborn, London, 1842
Quarto (385 x 270 mm.), full contemporary heavily embossed calf, rebacked. With poor cloth tape to endpapers. With torn engraved title repaired with sellotape and 46 early wash coloured maps, the Yorkshire in four sheets. Folding maps of ‘Railway Map of England & Scotland’ not in previous editions, England & Wales with repaired tear, Ireland and Scotland, with general maps of North and South Wales. Middlesex with small centrefold split, Surrey extensive split.
Stock number: 1831
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