A New Map of the River Thames, from Thames Head to London

TAUNT, Henry W. (1842-1922).

Edité par Oxford: Taunt & Co., [1897].

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8vo., (8 x 5 inches). Folding lithographed map of the Thames with the river hand-coloured in blue and dated 1897, 33 double-page chromolithographed maps, one full-page lithographed map, folding lithographed Table of Distances. Photographic frontispiece, one full-page photograph, and 100 small photographs all tipped-in, 3 full-page half-tones (two loose). Original red limp morocco gilt (worn at the head and foot of the spine with minor loss, hinges cracked). Provenance: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, their sale, Rachel Davis Auction September 21st, 2013, lot 512 Sixth edition (first published in 1872), published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year and with many more photos and maps than in previous editions of the entire length of the Thames. This is a charming book, with lovely clear maps, and historic photographs of Thames landmarks. Taunt was a renowned photographer of the second half of the 19th-century, having taken his first photograph of a group in Exeter College quad in about 1858. "His photographs of the Oxford area and the River Thames soon attracted praise and he publicized them through magic-lantern lectures and in his book, 'A New Map of the River Thames' (1872), which included paste-down prints and his own survey of the river between Oxford and London. In his later years he became a prolific author of local histories and guidebooks, publishing over fifty titles; he also diversified into printing and became a major publisher of picture postcards. Between 1893 and 1906 he was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. "Taunt was a tall, distinguished-looking man with a full beard, almost invariably seen wearing nautical garb and a yachting cap. He was a competent musician and was at one time organist and choir leader at St Mary Magdalen Church in Oxford; his sense of fun was demonstrated by humorous poetic jingles and annual children's entertainments but he was also a fierce campaigner, battling for clean city water in 1880 and against electric tramways in 1906.Like many other nineteenth-century photographers, Taunt documented the local urban and rural scene but his artistic temperament and historian's eye raised his work on to a higher plane and gave it an enduring appeal" (Malcolm Graham for DNB).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A New Map of the River Thames, from Thames Head to London
• Éditeur: Oxford: Taunt & Co., [1897].
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • London
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