William Faden

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.

The recorded working language is English. Works named in the authority record are The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, commonly called The Jerseys and Plan of the Operations of General Washington, against the Kings Troops in New Jersey, from the 26th. Of December, 1776, to the 3d. Work by William Faden is recorded in the collections of Het Scheepvaartmuseum.

William Faden was born as the son of the printer Willam Faden senior (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. William Faden was also the publisher of the periodical "the Public Ledger" or "The Daily Register" in London. A list of the English county maps printed by William Faden is also given in one of his biographies.

• Illustration — 1777 map of New Jersey • Illustration — 1777 military map of the Ten Crucial Days during the American Revolutionary War • Illustration — A 1785 map of the Mediterranean Sea with the Adjacent Regions and Seas in Europe, Asia and Africa • Illustration — Close-up of imprint • Illustration — Map of Greece and Anatolia by Louis Stanislas d'Arcy Delarochette, published for William Faden