Tallis' Map of the Eastern & Western Hemispheres Engraver(s)_Girolamo Porro Folding map of the British

Folding map of the British Empire

The classical muses on this title page represent Chronology

engraved by John and Charles Walker

It might be possible to read into Natesan’s emphasis on printing an up-to-date authorised edition a certain annoyance that another publisher had pipped him to the post with (what he considered to be) an inferior collection

and some old glue residue showing through

Tallis' Map of the Eastern & Western Hemispheres Engraver(s)_Girolamo Porro Folding map of the BritishThe map of the Eastern Hemisphere tracks the overland route to India (subject of a separate map in the series) and on to Australia. John Tallis the younger (1817 76) is best remembered for his hugely popular "Illustrated Atlas" published serially from the mid 1840s onwards and in its complete form in 1851. He was born in Stourbridge in Worcestershire in about 1818 and it is likely that he stayed in the Midlands working as a publisher in Birmingham,