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Description

One of the Last Decorative Atlases

Atlas Description:  Decorative title page, frontispiece, two engraved plates of waterfalls and islands, and 81 decorative maps.

Period half-calf & blue cloth-covered boards, tooled spine with gilt-decorated bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt.

A nice, complete copy of this famous atlas.

Condition Description
Original Quarter leather. Rubbing and some staining to boards, joints starting at ends; hinges cracked or starting, occasional light spotting not affecting map images, some creasing to corners; overall very good.
John Tallis Biography

John Tallis (1817-1876) was a British map publisher. Born in the Midlands, Tallis came to London in the 1840s. Tallis began his London career with a series of remarkable London street views. He began a partnership with a Frederick Tallis, possibly his brother, but their collaboration ended in 1849. For the Great Exhibition of 1851, Tallis published the Illustrated World Atlas, one of the last series of decorative world maps ever produced. The maps were engraved by John Rapkin, a skilled artisan. The maps were later reissued by the London Printing & Publishing Company, who left the Tallis imprint intact, thus ensuring his enduring fame. In 1858, he began publication of the popular Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages, selling it in 1861 (it ceased publication in 1863).