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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
FIRST EDITION. George Philip (1800-82) was born in Aberdeenshire and left in 1819 for Liverpool. He joined his brother who was a minister in the city. He began working with a bookseller before opening his own shop in 1834. His son George joined him in 1848. In 1865 the firm published in small folio ‘Philips’ Atlas of the Counties of England’. Presumably encouraged, the ‘Philips’ Handy Atlas’ was published in 1873 in octavo format. It proved in more popular being issued on a virtual annual basis into the twentieth century.
The maps are the work of John George Bartholomew (1831-93). He was the inventor of layer colouring, which was first introduced in his maps in 1888. Many of them were first published separately with cover and accompanying text for school use. Batton & Bennett (2010) 147; Carroll (1996) 123; Smith (1985) pp. 147-9; Smith (1987); Smith (1988); Tooley’s Dictionary (1999-2004); Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).
PHILIP, George & Son
Philips' Handy Atlas of the Counties of England by John Bartholomew, F. R. G. S.
George Philip & Son, 32, Fleet Street. Liverpool: Caxton Buildings, South John Street, and 49 & 51, South Castle Street, London & Liverpool, 1873
FIRST EDITION. Octavo (185 x 125 mm.), full contemporary publisher’s red cloth, with ornate blind panelling to boards, upper cover with central ornate gilt vignette and title, spine with blind ruled bands, with adverts as endpapers. With typographic title and Contents leaves, 40 printed wash coloured maps comprising 1 general, 37 county, north and south Wales, in good condition.
Stock number: 10320
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