John Tallis
Illustration — Photograph of cartographic publisher John Tallis, ca.1858 John Tallis (7 November 1817 – 3 June 1876) was an English cartographic publisher. His company, John Tallis & Company, published views, maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846, and was dissolved in 1849.
John Tallis
Engraver John Cochran, artist Anthonis Van Dyck · http: type=Print listall=1 · Public domain
- Born
- 1817 · Stourbridge.
- Died
- 1876
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- cartographer · printer · publisher · bookseller
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Illustration — Photograph of cartographic publisher John Tallis, ca.1858 John Tallis (7 November 1817 – 3 June 1876) was an English cartographic publisher. His company, John Tallis & Company, published views, maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846, and was dissolved in 1849.
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From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis & Company. He started the Illustrated News of the World which issued engraved portraits as supplements in a series entitled ‘National Portrait Gallery of eminent personages' in 1858, selling it for £1,370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. The series was subsequently republished in a number of separate volumes. He lived in New Cross, South East London. His house on New Cross Road is listed as a Building of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, grade II. It has a blue plaque on the wall to signal the event.
• Illustration — Map of the northern and western part of the Chinese Empire - "Tibet, Mongolia, and Manchuria", from Tallis' atlas of the world (1851) • Illustration — Map of Palestine in 1851, showing the Kaza subdivisions. At the time, the region shown was split between the Sidon Eyalet and the Damascus Eyalet • Illustration — 1850 Tallis Map of the Cape Colony • Illustration — 1851 Tallis map of British Possessions in the Mediterranean (engraved by John Rapkin) • Illustration — 1851 Tallis Map of Mexico • Illustration — Map titled 'Kabul, the Punjab, and Balochistan', by John Tallis, London, 1851 • Illustration — Map of British India, showing principal administrative divisions, London & New York, 1851
This is Tallis’s c. 1850 chart of comparative geographic features for the Western Hemisphere. Shows the islands of New Zealand, Cuba, Iceland etc., the Great Lakes and others, the rivers Mississippi, St Lawrence and Amazon and the mountains with the highest given as Nevada de Sorata, South America. This particular chart was likely not issued with Tallis’ Illustrated Atlas. Given its double fold li
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Fanny Cooper 1850 from John Tallis magazine
Tallis's 'Dramatic Magazine'. 1850
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