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Revision as of 09:48, 8 September 2015

by Aaron Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis

A New And Elegant General Atlas.
ArrowsmithGeneralAtlas1804.jpg

Title page from A New And Elegant General Atlas., George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Aaron Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis
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Translator {{{trans}}}
Published Philadelphia: John Conrad & Co.
Date 1804
Edition First American
Language English
Volumes {{{set}}} volume set
Pages [65] leaves including 63 maps
Desc. 4to (28 cm.)
Location Shelf C-4
  [[Shelf {{{shelf2}}}]]
Map of the world.

A New and Elegant General Atlas was created by Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823), a renowned eighteenth century cartographer and Samuel Lewis (1753/54-1822) of whom nothing else is known. A man of high standards, Arrowsmith was constantly making revisions to ensure that his maps were as up to date because the admiralty and the throne of England used many of them. Arrowsmith personally completed the artwork for the maps as well, leading his maps to be well-known for their artistic beauty. After his death in 1823, his son Aaron continued Arrowsmith's work.[1]

Arrowsmith’s New and Elegant General Atlas, published in 1804, contains sixty-five maps. It exemplifies the simplistic beauty for which Arrowsmith’s maps were known and incorporates recent discoveries made at the time it was published.

Inscription, front free endpaper.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Thomas Jefferson listed Atlas by Arrowsmith & Lewis 4to. in his inventory of Wythe's Library, noting that he kept the volume himself. He later sold a copy of the first American edition to the Library of Congress, a copy is thought to be Jefferson's (and therefore, also Wythe's).[2] Brown's Bibliography[3] references this copy at the Library of Congress while George Wythe's Library[4] on LibraryThing) lists it as the "probable edition". The Wolf Law Library followed Sowerby and Brown's advice and purchased a copy of the first American edition.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in modern calf backed marbled paper boards. Inscribed "Brice's atlas 5 mo. 19th 1816" on the front free endpaper. Purchased from Arader Galleries.

View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

Map of Italy.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Baigent, "Arrowsmith, Aaron, the elder (1750)-1823), cartographer and map publisher" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed October 9, 2013.
  2. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4:97 [no.3836].
  3. ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
  4. ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013.
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