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The Map Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century - Letters to the London Map Sellers (Hardcover)
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The Map Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century - Letters to the London Map Sellers (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2000:06
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This collection of eighty-nine letters written by Parisian and
other European map publishers to the London map firm of Jefferys
& Faden represents one of the few business archives left to us
from the eighteenth-century map trade. Thomas Jefferys
(c.1720-1771) and William Faden (1749-1836) both enjoyed the title
of 'Geographer to the King of England' and were well respected by
other geographers of the period. Like many of his contemporaries in
the map trade, Jefferys had difficulty making a financial success
of his map business; his successor Faden, by contrast, was able to
expand the firm into a flourishing business which continued well
into the nineteenth century. Their correspondents included
important European map and print publishers such as Covens &
Mortier in Amsterdam and Lattre, Julien and Desnos in Paris, as
well as the French geographers d'Anville and Robert de Vaugondy.
Other persons mentioned in the correspondence provide links between
Faden's London firm and the Depot de la Marine, the French Navy's
cartographic department, an important connection in the tumultuous
decade of 1773-1783 when England found itself at war with France in
North America, in the English Channel, and in India. The letters
also provide a detailed view of the costs of doing business -
prices, discount, payment, schedules and methods, shipping costs
and arrangements- in the last quarter of the eighteenth century and
further increase our knowledge of the economics of map production
and sales in this period. The letters are now in the Manuscript
Division of the William L. Clements Library at the University of
Michigan. In this edition they have been transcribed and fully
annotated and are preceded by an introduction placing the
correspondence in the context of the print and book trade and the
role of cartography in eighteenth-century politics.
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