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1956 Philip Map of Winston Churchill's Travels During World War II
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1956 Philip Map of Winston Churchill's Travels During World War II
DunkirkToBerlin-philip-1956
Title
1956 (dated) 34 x 43.75 in (86.36 x 111.125 cm) 1 : 12672000
Description
Publication History and Census
This map was designed by Frank A. de Vine Hunt and originally published by George Philip and Sons and the London Geographical Institute. The present example was published in April 1956 for World Book members to 'commemorate the completion of publication of the Reprint Society edition of the Churchill War Memoirs'. We note eight examples cataloged in OCLC, at the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine, the University of Virginia, the University of Toronto, the University of South Carolina, the University of Texas at Austin, the National Library of Australia, the State Library of Queensland, and the State Library of South Australia.Cartographer
George Philip (1800 - 1882) was a map publisher and cartographer active in the mid to late-19th century. Philip was born into a Calvinst family in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Around 1819 he apprenticed himself to William Grapel, a Liverpool printer and bookseller. Fifteen years later, in 1834, Philip founded his own Liverpool book and map firm. Philip's earliest cartographic ventures were mostly educational material issued in tandem with John Bartholomew Sr., August Petermann, and William Hughes. In 1848, Philip admitted his son, George Philip Jr. (1823 - 1902) into the firm, renaming it George Philip and Son Ltd. George Philip Jr. ran the firm until his death in 1902, by which time it had developed into a major publishing concern. His successors established the London Geographical Institute, a factory where they embraced modern printing techniques to produce thousands of economical and high quality maps. In April 1988, George Philip & Son was acquired by Octopus Publishing, a branch of Reed International. Nonetheless, today the firm trades and publishes to this day as George Philip and Son. More by this mapmaker...