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Mr. Philip D. Burden
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First published in 1829 the title page of this edition states that the ‘whole [is] carefully revised & corrected to the year, 1830.’ 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 the plates with the ‘New British Atlas’ being published through 1842. Provenance: bookplate of W D MacKenzie at Fawley Court inside cover; Heathcote Ball & Co., auction 25 July 1991 lot 490; from a private English Collection. Beresiner pp. 190 & 227-9; Carroll 71; Chubb 410.
TEESDALE, Henry
New British Atlas
London, 1830
Large folio (480 x 380 mm.), full contemporary calf with inset marbled paper within gilt panels on both covers, upper cover bearing an ornate gilt calf title label. An extensively gilded spine. With engraved title and 45 early wash coloured maps, the Yorkshire in four sheets. Folding maps of England & Wales, Ireland and Scotland, with general maps of North and South Wales. With some foxing to the general maps and Middlesex with a margin tear repaired.
Stock number: 1767
£ 1,750