Edward Mogg
Illustration — Mogg's Handbook for Railway Travellers, 1840 Edward Mogg was a publisher in London in the 19th century. He issued maps and travel guides to London and other localities in England and Wales. Mogg's publications appear in works of fiction such as Robert Smith Surtees' Mr.
Edward Mogg
![An extraordinary first edition example of Edward Mogg's important 1806 case map of London, England. Covers the central part of London from Kensington to Greenwich and the East India Docks. Of this stunning map, Mogg writes...like the clue of Ariadne, [it] will conduct him through the labyrinth, and, occasionally consulted, will enable him, unattended, to thread with ease the mazes of this vast me](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/1806_Mogg_Pocket_or_Case_Map_of_London%2C_England_-_Geographicus_-_London-mogg-1806.jpg/1280px-1806_Mogg_Pocket_or_Case_Map_of_London%2C_England_-_Geographicus_-_London-mogg-1806.jpg)
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- Born
- 1803
- Died
- 1860
- Occupation
- businessperson · cartographer
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1800s-1810s
1800s-1810s
Sponge's Sporting Tour and Shirley Brooks' The Naggletons.
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Edward Mogg is described as a cartographer in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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The period of activity is recorded as 1822.
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Edward Mogg's extraordinary 1820 case map of the region 24 miles around London, England. Covers from Ryegate in the south to Hertfort in the north, and from Windsor in the west to Gravesend in the east. Mogg first issued this revolutionary circular format map in 1805 and published 11 subsequent editions, the last being 1860. This example represents the sixth state, 1820, in which Waterloo Road fir
This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a co
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1803
Edward Mogg born.
1860
Edward Mogg died.
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- 1.Edward Mogg. London Book Trades 1775-1800: a Preliminary Checklist of Members. 11 January 2007.
- 2.Guide Books: Road Books, &c. The Bookseller. 3 July 1872.
- 3.Surtees, Robert Smith. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd. 1852. 2938627.
- 4.Shirley Brooks. The Naggletons, and Miss Violet and her 'offers'. 1875.
- 5.Robert Watt. Bibliotheca Britannica. 1824.
- 6.Tim Cribb. Travelling through Time: Transformations of Narrative from Early to Late Dickens. Yearbook of English Studies. 26. 73–88. 1996. 10.2307/3508647.
- 7.44. 17.
- 8.John Parker Anderson. Book of British Topography: a classified catalogue of the topographical works in the Library of the British Museum relating to Great Britain and Ireland. W. Satchell. 1881.
- 9.Mogg's Ten Thousand Cab Fares (advert). The Athenaeum. 15 September 1849.
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