1924 Pownall / Calthrop Illustrated Fantasy Atlas, Traveler's Joy
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Traveller's joy : a device
Cartographic wonderlands.
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Cartographic wonderlands.
A delightful work of geographical fantasy, this is Dion Clayton Calthrop and Gilbert Anthony Pownall's 1824 Traveler's Joy: A Device. The fantasy atlas takes readers on a tour of imagined places, succinctly described by Calthrop to leave room for interpretation and gorgeously illustrated by Pownall.A Closer Look
The book is a playful and distinctive combination of influences from children's literature, fantasy, and cartography. Using an attractively simple layout, each map is introduced with an explanation by Calthrop on the opposite page. The eight maps are:Publication History and Census
The text of Traveler's Joy was written by Dion Clayton Calthrop, the illustrations were by Gilbert Anthony Pownall, and the book was published in London by William Heinemann in 1924 (with an American edition the same year by Alfred A. Knopf). The print run was apparently quite limited, and only twelve institutions on either side of the Atlantic are listed as holding a physical copy of the book in the OCLC. Both the individual maps and the entire book are quite scarce to the market.Cartographer
Gilbert Anthony Pownall (January 17, 1877 – October 20, 1960) was a British illustrator best known for his portraits and figure paintings. He also drew several colorful maps for the fantasy geography book Traveler's Joy, written by Dion Clayton Calthrop. Further Details...
Condition
Good. Foxing on some pages, not impeding the illustrations.
References
OCLC 789278557.