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1794 Wilkinson Map of France in Departments

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1794 Wilkinson Map of France in Departments

France-wilkinson-1794


Title


France, Divided into Departments, etc. agreeable to the Decrees of the National Assembly.
  1794 (dated)     9.5 x 11.75 in (24.13 x 29.845 cm)

Description


Robert Wilkinson's finely detailed first edition 1794 map of France divided into departments. This map was issued in the second year of the French Revolutionary or Napoleonic Wars, which would soon engulf much of western europe. The map is thus not only extremely attractive but documents a defining moment in european history. Corsica appears on an inset.

A great companion map to Wilkinson's 1794 map of France divided in to Provinces, from the same atlas. On March 4th of 1790, shortly after this map was issued, the French National Constituent Assembly reorganized the provinces into 101 departments. Old habits being what they are, many atlases, including Wilkinson's, include two maps of France, one divided into provinces and another into departments.

engraved by Thomas Conder for the 1794 first edition of Robert Wilkinson's General Atlas.

CartographerS


Robert Wilkinson (fl. c. 1758 - 1825) was a London based map and atlas publisher active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Most of Wilkinson's maps were derived from the earlier work of John Bowles, one of the preeminent English map publishers of the 18th century. Wilkinson's acquired the Bowles map plate library following that cartographer's death in 1779. Wilkinson updated and retooled the Bowles plates over several years until, in 1794, he issued his first fully original atlas, The General Atlas of the World. This popular atlas was profitably reissued in numerous editions until about 1825 when Wilkinson died. In the course of his nearly 45 years in the map and print trade, Wilkinson issued also published numerous independently issued large format wall, case, and folding maps. Wilkinson's core cartographic corpus includes Bowen and Kitchin's Large English Atlas (1785), Speer's West Indies (1796), Atlas Classica (1797), and the General Atlas of the World (1794, 1802, and 1809), as well as independent issue maps of New Holland (1820), and North America ( 1823). Wilkinson's offices were based at no. 58 Cornhill, London form 1792 to 1816, following which he relocated to 125 Frenchurch Street, also in London, where he remained until 1823. Following his 1825 death, Wilkinson's business and map plates were acquired by William Darton, an innovative map publisher who reissued the General Atlas with his own imprint well into the 19th century. More by this mapmaker...


Thomas Conder (1747 - June 1831) was an English map engraver and bookseller active in London during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. From his shop at 30 Bucklersbury, London, Conder produced a large corpus of maps and charts, usually in conjunction with other publishers of his day, including Wilkinson, Moore, Kitchin, and Walpole. Unfortunately few biographical facts regarding Conder's life have survived. Thomas Conder was succeeded by his son Josiah Conder who, despite being severely blinded by smallpox, followed in his father's footsteps as a bookseller and author of some renown. Learn More...

Source


Wilkinson, R., A General Atlas being A Collection of Maps of the World and Quarters the Principal Empires, Kingdoms, and C. with their several Provinces, and other Subdivisions Correctly Delineated., (London) 1794 First Edition.    

Condition


Very good. Minor marginal soiling. Original platemark visible. Blank on verso.