Wynne, Charles H. (sold)
Charles H. Wynne (1822 - March 19, 1870) was an American publisher and newspaperman based in Richmond, Virginia, active during the middle part of the 19th century. Wynne established a printing house in Richmond, Virginia, at the corner of Main and 14th sometime in the 1850s. Wynne was the Richmond printer of the Johnson and Browning Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas from 1860 to 1862. On April 21, 1861, Browning fled the Confederacy for New York, and Wynne enlisted in the Confederate 1st Regiment, Virginia Artillery to fight the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). The Confederacy must have decided he was more valuable as printer than as a solider, and so he contributed to the war effort by printing war bonds and currency. At the end of the Civil War he founded the The Richmond Times, which began publishing with its first issue on Friday, April 21, 1865. In September of 1865, he was attacked by a disgruntled employee, John M. Reyner, and severely beaten with a strip of cow hide. Two years later, in 1867, Wynne and The Richmond Times fell into insolvency and his presses were liquidated at auction in 1868. After the bankruptcy he continued to publish, issuing Wynne's Virginia and North Carolina Almanac - 1869. As his financial fortunes declined, so did his heath. Wynne died of a heart attack in April of 1870.
First maps to name Arizona?
This is the 1860 Richmond-imprint first edition of Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas. While Johnson's atlases are not, in general, rare, the 1860 Richmond first edition is a genuine rarity. It is one of the only atlases published in the soon-to-be Confederacy prior to the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). It also includes the first two maps to name Arizona, predating the existence of the Arizona Territory by 5 years. In 20 years in the rare map trade, this is the first time we have seen a Richmond-imprint first edition of this atlas. (more details)