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Politics personified: Fred W. Rose and Liberal & Tory serio-comic maps, 1877-1880 – Part 1

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Politics personified: Fred W. Rose and Liberal & Tory serio-comic maps, 1877-1880 – Part 1

March 11, 2016February 16, 2023

Fred W. Rose and Liberal & Tory serio-comic maps, 1877-1880 – Part 1 In W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan’s famous comic operetta, Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri [1882], which so cleverly lampoons the British peerage and House of…

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US Comic Maps & the Prohibition era, 1920-1933 – Part 1: Isle of Pleasure

October 2, 2015March 14, 2018

Henry J Lawrence’s Map of the Isle of Pleasure [1931] As noted on the introductory flyleaf of Edward Behr’s splendid 1997 study, Prohibition – The Thirteen Years that changed America: On 16th January 1920, at the stroke of midnight, America…

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“The one and only original Map of Breakfast Island” – Cyril Phillips’ map of “life & taste in Britain at the beginning of the 2nd Elizabethan Reign”, 1953

September 9, 2015June 27, 2018

“It is our hope that Her Majesty may live long and happily and that Her reign may be as glorious as that of her great predecessor Queen Elizabeth I. Let us hope we are witnessing the beginning of a new…

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Travels in Book Land: Alphons Woelfle’s imaginary map of 1938…

June 16, 2015January 25, 2017

May and June are traditionally the highpoint of the London bookselling calendar, so it seems fitting to draw attention to another of our recent acquisitions, one of the most charming imaginary maps of the late 1930’s, German artist Alphons Woelfle’s…

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Henry Gardiner’s “Map of Man” – a very rare late 18th Century allegorical map printed on calico

May 13, 2015January 24, 2017

One of our most unusual map acquisitions offers a glimpse into the little-known history of English calico printing in the London metropolitan suburb of Wandsworth in the late 18th and early 19th Century. Probably dating from the last decade of…

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