Cary's New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland by Cary John, First Edition (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large 4to volume in original flexible wrap leather binding. Binding is in poor condition as it is dismounted from the page block. Ready for a rebind. Contents complete and in good condition other than some offsetting. Contents not foxed and with outlined colors.

No binding. Quarto (325 x 255 mm.), modern green half calf, green cloth boards, spine with raised bands, blind ruled compartments, ornate gilt compartments, gilt title and date, later endpapers. With engraved title (sheet 80), dedication (sheet 71), early wash coloured general map (sheet 62), Explanation (sheet 72) and Scale (sheet 62) and map in 76 sections, numbered to 81, in early outline colour with some wash colour, pp. 88 general Index and list of subscribers bound at the end, in good condition. FIRST EDITION. John Cary (1755-1835) and descendants were possibly the most prolific publishers of cartography around the turn of the nineteenth century. Cary is noted for the clarity of detail in his maps and was the first to use the Greenwich meridian. Cary was born in Warminster in 1755 to a prominent family. At fifteen he was apprenticed to the engraver William Palmer and made free in 1778. His very earliest works were engravings for, or publications in partnership with others. Many of these suffered bankruptcy or other ill fortune. Undeterred he opened his own premises at 188 Strand taking over from the bookseller Samuel Hooper. His first sole publication was a very rare road book displaying the route from London to Falmouth published in 1784. At this point in time no fresh county atlases had been issued since the 'Large English Atlas' of the 1750s. Since then, between Robert Sayer and the Bowles family, now in the hands of Carington Bowles, the market had to make do with reissues of earlier works. However, during much of this period many counties had undergone fresh large-scale survey's, several of which had been published. Both individuals were as Hodson stated 'now in their 60s, were wealthy, and furthermore quite uninterested in undertaking the compilation of a new English county atlas'. Having worked already on books to do with roads and canals, Cary could see the rapidly transforming landscape and its use by the public. The huge increase in the number of Turnpikes towards the end of the eighteenth century helped to ensure comfortable and relatively safe travel across the country. In 1787-89 Cary published the 'New and Correct English Atlas' which proved immediately successful. This work was first published as a separately issued wall map in eighty-one sheets in 1792. An example of it is found in the British Library (Maps *1130.2). Although strictly a wall map, it is best known through its publication in 1794 as an atlas with all eighty-one sheets bound in. The whole measures approximately 1775 x 2235 mm. and is drawn on a scale of 5 miles to the inch. It is also widely recognised as the first English atlas to be published using Greenwich as the Prime Meridian. This was agreed world-wide at an international conference in Washington in 1884. It was John Seller who, with his map of Hertfordshire published in 1676, first popularised the use of St. Paul's Cathedral in London as the Meridian. Some individual maps had been published prior to 1794 using Greenwich, but none of the whole country.This map extends as far north as Edinburgh and gives extensive detail of the country at the time. It is dedicated to the Earl of Chesterfield and Lord Walsingham, the Post Masters General. Each sheet includes in the border a small square illustrating the numbers of the adjoining sheets for easy reference. The title, dedication, index map, explanation and scale bound at the beginning form sheets 80, 71, 62, 72 and 63 accordingly. All are to be found in the upper right of the whole. The top right sheet 81 is bound in order in the main part of the book.This example also includes the 'List of Places' in 85 pages followed by the 3 page 'List of Subscribers'. Special attention was paid to the roads. Fordham (1925a) pp. 44-7; Smith (1988); Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Cary (illustrator). 1st Edition. Published in 1794, this is a nice hand coloured example of Cary's Map of England and Wales, with part of Scotland, with original full hand colouring rather than just the outline colouring in many copies, the map covers Eighty One separate Pages, with a general map and a folding distances table, plus 85 pages index and a list of subscribers, pages 62 & 80 are not present as issued, these only covered blank areas of the sea, bound in old leather boards with later leather spine, this example was originally the property of the noted botanist Stanesby Alchorne (1727-1800) of The Tower of London, who worked at the Chelsea Physick Garden, and also at The Royal Mint as an Assay Master, the book has been fitted with new endpapers, some light foxing, the folding distance table has some creasing and edge curling else in nice general condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. J. Cary. London. 1794. First edition. 4to. Bound in reverse calf with envelope style of flap to protect contents, flap worn and ripped, upper joint very tender. Marbled endpapers with small engraved complete map and scale to front pastedown. Title page, dedication page, two blanks followed by a hand-tinted general map showing the numbers of the pages as a modern road atlas does. All hand-coloured map pages bound in. Map numbers 62, 63, 71, 72 and 80 would be blank pages and are missing. Map numbers 78, 79 and 81 are also blank pages but are present. 85 page index plus 3 pages of subscribers. Ownership signature to verso of front end paper. Occasional foxing and browning otherwise a very complete and clean atlas.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. a clean unmarked copy in slightly later boards, spine renewed. Small repair to title page and some margins a bit foxed, as it the title page. Short closed tear ot margin of plate 74. Bound without sheets 62 and 80 as usual both of which are blanks. All sheets with original hand colouring.

4to., (11 6/8 x 9 3/8 inches). Engraved title-page, dedication leaf, Explanations, and scale. Engraved "General Map" giving Greenwich as the meridian, and 77 engraved numbered maps (1-81) all with original hand-colour in outline (some brownign and offsetting, some minor insect damage to fore-edges of last leaves). Contemporary maroon morocco gilt wallet-style binding (extremities a bit scuffed, some minor insect damage to flap). First edition. The general map of England and Wales is "is the first map on the meridian of Greenwich instead of London (St. Paul's Cathedral) which had been used on English maps from its introduction by John Seller in 1676" (Wardington). There are in fact four meridians that pass through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich: the first was Flamsteed's, established in 1675 and named for the celebrated Astronomer Royal; the second was established by Edmund Halley in 1725; the third after James Bradley; and the fourth in 1851 by Sir George Airy. This last was designated the Prime Meridian at an international conference in Washington in 1884, even though France continued to use their own meridian in creating maps for several decades to come. "Cary's first known engraved plan is dated 1779. Henceforth, the quality of his engraving established new standards and a new style, with his effective, starkly beautiful, plain design being widely adopted. His firm's cartographic output was prolific and diverse, ranging through maps, plans, atlases, astronomical and educational works, road-books (including works based on surveys by Aaron Arrowsmith the elder, who probably trained him), guides, and globes. Particularly noteworthy are the immensely popular New and Correct English Atlas (editions from 1787), which became the standard county atlas of the period, and the Traveller's Companion (from 1790), the printing plates of both of which had to be replaced having become worn in the effort to meet the huge demand, and the particularly fine New English Atlas (from 1801) and New Universal Atlas (from 1808)" (David Smith for DNB). Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. First. 4to, profusely illustrated with hand-colored maps in detailed scale. Rebound brown morocco-backed marbled boards with gilt decorated spines and red leather label. London: J. Cary, 1794. First edition. Light foxing and offsetting, else near fine. Page 62 and 80 are not present, as issued. On Which are Carefully Laid Down All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals, Cities, Market and Borough Towns, Parishes, and Most Considerable Hamlets, Parks, Forests, &c., &c.

4to., (11 6/8 x 9 3/8 inches). Engraved title-page, dedication leaf, Explanations, and scale. Engraved "General Map" giving Greenwich as the meridian, and 77 engraved numbered maps (1-81) all with original hand-colour in full. Contemporary tree calf, gilt, all edges gilt (rebacked to style). Provenance: from the library of Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, Lord Wardington (1924-2005), his sale Library of Important Atlases and Geographies, 18th October 2005, lot 94. First edition. The general map of England and Wales is "is the first map on the meridian of Greenwich instead of London (St. Paul's Cathedral) which had been used on English maps from its introduction by John Seller in 1676" (Wardington). There are in fact four meridians that pass through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich: the first was Flamsteed's, established in 1675 and named for the celebrated Astronomer Royal; the second was established by Edmund Halley in 1725; the third after James Bradley; and the fourth in 1851 by Sir George Airy. This last was designated the Prime Meridian at an international conference in Washington in 1884, even though France continued to use their own meridian in creating maps for several decades to come. "Cary's first known engraved plan is dated 1779. Henceforth, the quality of his engraving established new standards and a new style, with his effective, starkly beautiful, plain design being widely adopted. His firm's cartographic output was prolific and diverse, ranging through maps, plans, atlases, astronomical and educational works, road-books (including works based on surveys by Aaron Arrowsmith the elder, who probably trained him), guides, and globes. Particularly noteworthy are the immensely popular New and Correct English Atlas (editions from 1787), which became the standard county atlas of the period, and the Traveller's Companion (from 1790), the printing plates of both of which had to be replaced having become worn in the effort to meet the huge demand, and the particularly fine New English Atlas (from 1801) and New Universal Atlas (from 1808)" (David Smith for DNB). From the distinguished library of Lord Wardington, whose collection of Atlases was unique: "a panoply of the history of cartography and of great mapmakers" (Andrew Phillips "An Appreciation", Sotheby's sale Catalogue). Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please note: it is not possible to show the whole map in a single photograph: the accompanying photos show a selection of details. Extremely large folding map divided into nine pieces with each one having part of the overall map divided into (a further nine) sections and mounted on linen. The equivalent outer edges with green silk bordering. To the reverse of each piece is a small index map showing that section, along with and ownership name and number. Each piece measures 59cm by 65cm approx. When the pieces are laid adjacent, the whole map measures 179 by 225cm approx. Area covered: northwards, a line from Colonsay to Crail; all of England and Wales; Isle of Man; Scilly Isles (inset). Detailed title with large calligraphic dedication beneath, followed by a small index map. Previous owner's name just above the title (different to name on reverse). No holes or tears. Periodic light marking to the map face but nothing significant. Light spotting to reverse of pieces other than the top right one with has a little patch of water staining to the reverse but map face unaffected. Outline colouring, along with green for parks and red for major towns. Wales has pronounced hachuring for landscape and gives the map a different look in those areas (coupled with a lack of roads etc). Highly detailed as always with Cary's maps, and with the map subdivided makes it more manageable to handle. Rigid slipcase with labels to side partially lost. Owner's coat of arms to front, again rather worn. Casing very scuffed, with surface loss and splits to some edges but structurally rigid and sound. A lovely example, rarely seen in this form. (Note: the green tint on one of the accompanying photos is an image processing fault and is not a tint on the actual map). Further details available on request. (Ud1).

First edition of this very large 6-part map of England and Wales, dissected and linen-backed, in original slipcase. Maps have labels of William Faden. Full color by county. A very attractive map. Though also issued in book form, this edition was obviously put together at the time at Faden's shop.