This is the first dated edition of Whittaker’s ‘Travellers Pocket Atlas’ but it is believed that the undated issue is earlier, perhaps as early as 1820. The maps were also issued in ‘Pinnock’s County Histories’, similarly, published by Whittaker. A fine example of a lovely little English County atlas engraved by Samuel John Neele (1758-1824). Although advanced in age at this time, he was engraving to the year of his death. He became a schoolmaster before becoming a bookseller. Whereas Pinnock’s work ran to 6 volumes, the Whittaker’s clearly saw the opportunity to issue these small maps in atlas form. In this edition, most of the maps are dated 1821 and bear the publisher’s imprint. The map of Hampshire is deliberately bound under ‘s’ for Southampton, a clear intention as it is listed so in the initial index. Provenance: with bookseller’s label pasted inside upper board of Winter & Son, Taunton; private English collection. Carroll (1996) no. 77; Chubb (1927) no. 390; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).