Digital Image: 1918 Bernard Sleigh 'Anciente Mappe of Fairlyand'
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Title
An Anciente Mappe of Fairy Land newly discovered and set forth.
1918 (undated) 20 x 72.5 in (50.8 x 184.15 cm) Scale of Thoughts.
1918 (undated) 20 x 72.5 in (50.8 x 184.15 cm) Scale of Thoughts.
Description
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Digital Map Information
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Refunds
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Cartographer
Bernard Sleigh (1852 - December 7, 1954) was a British author, muralist, stained-glass artist, illustrator and wood engraver active in London in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Sleigh was born in Birmingham, England and studied at the Birmingham School of art. He was a student of Arthur Gaskin. His work is deeply influenced by his early association with William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists between 1923 and 1928. His most famous cartographic work is An Ancient Mappe of Fairyland, Newly Discovered and Set Forth, published at the end of the Great War or World War I. He also published several less well known maps of Birmingham and other parts of England. Sleigh retired to Chipping Campden in 1937. For those who are unacquainted with 'Chipping Campden' or 'Chippy,' in the heart of England's picturesque Cotswolds, it is a place that seems more akin to 'Fairy Land' than to the modern industrial world. More by this mapmaker...
References
Baynton-Williams, A., The Curious Map Book, pages 212 - 213. Bryers, Time, and Haper, Tom, A Histroy of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps, pages 58-59. Boston Public Library, Leventhal Collection, G9930 1917 .S5.