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369:, and Ross. 1776. The North American atlas: selected from the most authentic maps, charts, plans, &c. hitherto published. London: Printed for William Faden. A compilation of maps from various sources. Includes 27 maps on two facing pages: no. 1-2. Chart of the Atlantic Ocean.--no. 3. General map of the British colonies.--no. 4. Canada.--no. 5. Island of Newfoundland.--no. 6. Nova Scotia.--no. 7-8. New England.--no. 9. Boston harbour.--no. 10 Rhode Island.--no. 11. Reduced map of New York.--no. 12-14. New York.--no. 15. New Jersey.--no. 16. Pennsylvania.--no. 17. Delaware River.--no. 18-19. Virginia & Maryland.--no. 20-21. Nth & Sth Carolina.--no. 22-23. Sth Carolina & Georgia.--no. 24. Harbour of Charles Town.--no. 25. Savannah River.--no. 26. Florida.--no. 27. West Indies. Five maps are not listed. The 5 unlisted maps are: Plan of the position which the army under Lt. Genl. Burgoine took at Saratoga ... (: Wm. Faden, 1780); Boston, its environs and harbour ... / from the observations of Lieut. Page. (: Wm. Faden, 1778); A chronographical map of the province of New-York in North America ... / by Claude Joseph Sauthier. (London : Engraved and published by William Faden, 1779). A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina ... / by Thos. Hutchins. (London : Engraved by T. Cheevers, 1778); Course of the river Mississippi from the Balise to Fort Chartres ... / by Lieut. Ross (London: Robt. Sayer, 1775.). Maps bear imprint dates of 1774-1780. The maps are hand-colored. 94: 79: 139: 113: 127: 93: 138: 61:(1711-1783). He self printed the North American Atlas in 1777, and "...it became the most important atlas chronicling the Revolution's battles." There were 29 maps in the atlas, and they included detailed battle maps drawn by eyewitnesses. 342: 112: 49:
and Thomas Jeffreys. All of these men, including William Faden, were engravers and publishers, not scholars or academics. Their part was to publish and supply maps to the crown and parliament.
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Macnair, Andrew, and Tom Williamson. 2010. William Faden and Norfolk's 18th century landscape: a digital re-assessment of his historic map. Bollington: Windgather.
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Pedley, Mary Sponberg. 2005. The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. University of Chicago Press. Page 33.
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Yokota, Kariann Akemi. 2011. Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation. Oxford University Press. Page 30.
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Pedley, Mary (1996). "Maps, War, and Commerce: Business Correspondence with the London Map Firm of Thomas Jefferys and William Faden".
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Worms, Laurence (June 2004). "The Maturing of British Commercial Cartography: William Faden (1749-1836) and the Map Trade".
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William Faden was also the publisher of the periodical "the Public Ledger" or "The Daily Register" in London.
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Welsch, Charles. 1885. A Bookseller of the Last Century. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh. Pages 43-44.
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A list of the English county maps printed by William Faden is also given in one of his biographies.
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The map trade in the late eighteenth century: letters to the London map sellers Jefferys and Faden
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A 1785 map of the Mediterranean Sea with the Adjacent Regions and Seas in Europe, Asia and Africa
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The title of "geographer to the king" was given to various people in the 18th century, including
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1822. London: Map Collectors' Circle. Originally published: London: W. Faden, 1822. 16 pages.
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Catalogue of the geographical works, maps, plans, &c. published by W. Faden ...
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Laurence, W. (2004). "Faden, William". Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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by Louis Stanislas d'Arcy Delarochette, published for William Faden
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Jefferys, Thomas, William Faden, and Mary Sponberg Pedley. 2000.
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and a publisher of maps. He was the royal geographer to
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cartographer
King George III
Thomas Jefferys
John Senex
Herman Moll
Emanuel Bowen
1777 map of New Jersey
New Jersey
1777 military map of the Ten Crucial Days during the American Revolutionary War
Ten Crucial Days
American Revolutionary War
A 1785 map of the Mediterranean Sea with the Adjacent Regions and Seas in Europe, Asia and Africa
Close-up of imprint
Map of Greece and Anatolia by Louis Stanislas d'Arcy Delarochette, published for William Faden
Greece
Anatolia
The Cartographic Journal
doi
10.1179/000870404225019972
S2CID
140642456
Imago Mundi
doi
10.1080/03085699608592838
JSTOR
1151268
"William Faden (1749-1836)"
Lehigh University
"A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia, 1777"
World Digital Library

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