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41565685.Pdf MY HEAD IS A MAP Essays & Memoirs in honour of R.V Tolley Edited by Helen Wallis and Sarah Tyacke Originally published by Francis Edwards and Carta Press London 1973 Republished with permission of the publisher Francis Edwards Antiquarian Bookseller, Tony Campbell and Sarah Tyacke. Special thanks to Tony Campbell whom initiated the republishing of this work and for proofreading his article ‘The Drapers’ Company and its school of seventeenth century chart‐makers’, and to Dr Stéphane Blond of the Université d’Evry‐Val d’Essonne for proof‐reading and editing the article ‘John Dee et sa place dans l’histoire de la cartographie’. Furthermore special thanks to Daria Lacy who was so kind to convert this publication into an e‐Book. Republished by : Kunstpedia.com Corrections : Tony Campbell, Dr Stéphane Blond and Sourya Biswas e‐Book design : Daria Lacy This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution‐No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by‐nd/2.0/uk/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Republished with permission of the publisher Francis Edwards Antiquarian Bookseller, Tony Campbell and Sarah Tyacke. Special thanks to Tony Campbell whom initiated the republishing of this work and for proofreading his article ‘The Drapers’ Company and its school of seventeenth century chart‐makers’. Furthermore special thanks to Dr Stéphane Blond of the Université d’Evry‐Val d’Essonne for proof‐ reading and editing the article ‘John Dee et sa place dans l’histoire de la cartographie’. Republished by : Kunstpedia.com, Haansberg 19, 4874NJ Etten‐Leur, The Netherlands Corrections : Tony Campbell , Dr Stéphane Blond and Sourya Biswas Table of Contents Title Page Frontispiece Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Contributors Preface List of Publications by R.V. Tooley PART ONE Chapter 1 ‐ The Map Collections of the British Museum Library Chapter 2 ‐ Engraved Title Plates for the Folio Atlases of John Seller Chapter 3 ‐ Some Lesser Men Chapter 4 ‐ Map‐Sellers and the London Map Trade C1 1650‐1710 Chapter 5 ‐ The Drapers’ Company and its School of Seventeenth Century Chart‐Makers Chapter 6 ‐ John Dee Et Sa Place Dans L’Historie De La Cartographie PART TWO Chapter 7 ‐ Memoirs of a Map‐Collector Chapter 8 ‐ An appreciation by Robert Stockwell LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece : Ronald Vere Tooley Plate 1 : A plan of the water system at Wormley in Hertfordshire c. 1200 from the Cartulary of Waltham Abbey. [BM Harleian MS 391.ff.5b.6]. Plate 2 : Plan of Great Yarmouth c. 1538 [MB Cotton MS Aug.I.i.74] Plate 3 : Detail of Nova Scotia on the ‘red‐line map’, John Mitchell’s Map of North America, c. 1775, annotated by Richard Oswald, 1782‐83. [BM K.118.d.26. (K.Top. CXVIII.49b.)] Plate 4 : The London View plate from John Seller’s A Description of the Sands [etc.] upon the Coasts of England. Plate 5 : The Columns and Globe plate from John Seller’s The English Pilot. Plate 6 : Engraved title plate insets from John Seller’s Atlas Maritimus Plate 7 : Engraved plate insets from John Seller’s The Coasting Pilot and Atlas Terrestris. Plate 8 : Engraved title insets fro John Seller’s The English Pilot. Plate 9 : Title plates for John Thornton’s editions of Atlas Maritimus. Plate 10 : Richard Blome’s trade card. [BM Sloane MS.4058.f.33]. Plate 11 : John Whitwood’s trade card [BM Bagfood Harleian 5947 Item 107]. Plate 12 : ‘A Propect of Westminster Hall’ c. 1690 [BM K.TopXXIV.24.b] Plate 13 : Chart of the North Atlantic by Andrew Welch. 1674 [NMM.G.213:2/5] Plate 14 : Chart of the coasts of North‐West India by Andrew Welch and William Hack, 1677. [BM Add. MS 39178A] Plate 15 : General map by William Hack from A Description of all Ports .... in the South Sea of America 1698 [BM K.Mr VII 16 (7 Tab 122)] CONTRIBUTORS TONY CAMPBELL Antiquarian map‐seller with Weinreb and Douwma Ltd. Served his apprenticeship with Mr Tooley at Francis Edwards. He has contributed several numbers to the Map Collectors’ Series. RICHARD A. GARDINER Keeper of the Map Room, Royal Geographical Society, formerly of the Ordnance Survey. ERAN LAOR Born in Hungary, settled in Palestine in 1934. His collection of maps, views, atlases, and travel books pertaining especially to the Middle East, constitutes one of the important private collections relating to this region. ANTOINE DE SMET Head of the Map Department, Bibliotheque royale Albert Ier, Brussels. SARAH TYACKE Assistant Keeper in the Map Room of the British Library (formerly the Map Room, British Museum). COOLIE VERNER Professor of Adult Education in the University of British Columbia, he has written inter alia a number of articles for the Map Collectors’ Series, and an introduction to the facsimile of John Seller’s English Pilot. HELEN WALLIS Superintendent of the Map Room, British Library (formerly the Map Room, British Museum). PREFACE This volume of essays celebrates Ronald Vere Tooley’s 75th birthday. With over fifty years in the London antiquarian map‐trade behind him, Tooley has long been a familiar figure in the sale‐rooms and in the map departments of the major libraries in London. He recalls his early days in the Map Room at the British Museum where in the late 1920s and 1930s there were rarely more than two or three visitors at a time and often he found himself the solitary reader. He saw the rapid increase in the Map Room’s use and public services under the superintendence of Dr Edward Lynam (1931‐1950), which in turn laid the foundation for its establishment under Dr R. A. Skelton (1950‐67) as a major centre of geographical and cartographical research. He became equally well known in the House of the Royal Geographical Society, where Edward Heawood, the pre‐eminent authority on early maps and the history of geographic discovery, was the Librarian. Once a month, Tooley recalls, the Royal Geographical Society had a selection of atlases and maps sent along to make their selection for purchase. Those were the days when a Lafreri atlas went for £40 and a Speed atlas for £3.10 (today the figures would be many thousands), such was the lack of any general interest in maps and their history. Few men were really knowledgeable on the subject and few books were available to guide the would‐be collector. The study of carto‐bibliography was still in its infancy. It followed that the keen collector with a sharp eye had unrivalled opportunities in the field. Employed by Francis Edwards Ltd from 1919, Tooley established himself as one of the leading ‘map‐men’ in London with a specialized knowledge which only the constant handling of maps could give. He helped to stock some of the finest map‐collections, public and private, in the world. He tells how A. G. H. Macpherson would rush into Francis Edwards on a Saturday morning, have all the maritime atlases set out for his inspection, and make a selection. Macpherson’s collection was later purchased for the National Maritime Museum by Sir James Caird Bart., whose generosity established the Museum’s collections as among the finest in the world. Through Tooley’s long association with the Map Room of the British Museum he came to know in his early days F. P. Sprent, Thomas Chubb, J. W. Skells, H. Beharrell and later on Dr Edward Lynam, Dr R. A. Skelton and their colleagues and successors. His good offices secured for the Map Room many important maps and atlases, the most notable in recent years being the purchase of four hitherto unrecorded manuscript English county maps 1602‐3 prepared as fair drafts for the engraver. These evidently belonged to the so‐called ‘anonymous series of 1602‐3’, of which the Royal Geographical Society has the most complete set, and has published a facsimile edition edited by Heawood. This acquisition enabled Skelton to identify the author of the anonymous series as William Smith (c 1550‐1618), herald and topographer and friend of John Norden. Had this county series been completed and their publication as an atlas secured, it might have forestalled John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611‐12). Perhaps the news that Speed was working on the atlas from 1603 onwards persuaded William Smith to abandon his project. Other librarians who have enjoyed the benefit of Tooley’s friendship and help, besides Heawood, are G. R. Crone, Heawood’s successor at the Royal Geographical Society, and Brigadier R. A. Gardiner, the present Keeper of the Map Room, Roger Fairclough of University Library, Cambridge, Miriam Foncin and Monique de la Roncière in the Dèpartement des Cartes et Plans at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Antoine de Smet at the Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, G. A. Cox at the Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam, Bert van’t Hoff of the Rijksarchief, The Hague, Alexander Vietor of Yale University Library, and Ben‐Eli of the Maritime Museum, Haifa. Mr Tooley also helped to build up many private or specialized collections, including those of Dr F. C. Wieder, John Bartholomew, Prince Yusuf Kamal (on Africa), Eran Laor (on Palestine), J. M. Wordie (on Polar regions), A. Stylianou (on Cyprus), H Malinowski (on Poland), Dr Eric Gardiner (on John Speed’s atlases) and Dr Sidney Newman (on road‐books). Many of the collections were founded despite the dearth (up to the 1950s) of a standard literature to guide collectors, librarians and dealers alike. Tooley counted among his friends many of those who helped to make good this omission, Roberto Almagia, M.
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