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A map of the Mediterranean Sea with the Adjacent Regions and Seas in Europe, Asia and Africa . by William Faden, royal geographer. London, printed for Wm. Faden, Charing Cross, March 1, 1785.
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William Faden ( 1749 - 1836 ) was an English cartographer and royal geographer of King George III. He was an engraver , publisher and also editor of magazines. The title "geographer to the king" was bestowed on various people in the 18th century, including John Senex , Herman Moll , Emmanuel Bowen and Thomas Jeffreys . All of these people, including William Faden, were engravers and publishers, not scholars or academics. Their job was to make maps for the Crown and Parliament.

Life

William Faden was born the son of the London printer Willam Faden senior (1711–1783), who was of Scottish descent (originally MacFaden). He himself printed the North American atlas in 1777, and it became the main atlas depicting the battles of the American War of Independence. There are 29 maps in the atlas containing detailed battle maps drawn by eyewitnesses. William was buried in St. Nicholas Churchyard in Shepperton, Spelthorne Borough, Surrey, England in 1836.

William Faden was also editor of "The Public Ledger" or "The Daily Register" in London.

A list of the English county maps that William Faden printed is also given in one of his biographies.

bibliography

  • Faden, William. 1963. Catalog of the geographical works, maps, plans, & c. published by W. Faden ... 1822. London: Map Collectors' Circle. Originally published: London: W. Faden, 1822. 16 pages.
  • Jefferys, Thomas, William Faden, and Mary Sponberg Pedley. 2000. The map trade in the late eighteenth century: letters to the London map sellers Jefferys and Faden . Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. Correspondence in French, introduction and commentary in English.
  • Laurence, W. (2004). "Thread, William". Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dictionary of National Biography .
  • Williamson, T., & Macnair, A. (2010). William Faden and Norfolk's 18th-century landscape . Oxford: Windgather Press

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pedley, Mary Sponberg. 2005. The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. University of Chicago Press. Page 33.
  2. ↑ Jefcoate, Graham: German printers and booksellers in London 1680-1811, (Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, March 10, 2015), chap. 17.1.1
  3. ↑ See the data of the German National Library
  4. ^ Faden, William, Thomas Hyde Page , Claude Joseph Sauthier , Thomas Hutchins , and Ross. 1776. The North American atlas: selected from the most authentic maps, charts, plans, & c. hitherto published. London: Printed for William Faden. A compilation of maps from various sources. Includes 27 maps on two facing pages: no. 1-2. Chart of the Atlantic Ocean .-- no. 3. General map of the British colonies .-- no. 4. Canada .-- no. 5. Island of Newfoundland .-- no. 6. Nova Scotia - no. 7-8. New England - no. 9. Boston harbor .-- no. 10 Rhode Island - no. 11. Reduced map of New York - no. 12-14. New York - no. 15. New Jersey - no. 16. Pennsylvania .-- no. 17. Delaware River .-- no. 18-19. Virginia & Maryland - no. 20-21. Nth & Sth Carolina .-- no. 22-23. Sth Carolina & Georgia .-- no. 24. Harbor of Charles Town .-- no. 25. Savannah River .-- no. 26. Florida - no. 27. West Indies. Five maps are not listed. The 5 unlisted maps are: Plan of the position which the army under Lt. Genl. Burgoine took at Saratoga ... ([London]: Wm. Faden, 1780); Boston, its environs and harbor ... / from the observations of Lieut. Page. ([London]: Wm. Faden, 1778); A chronographical map of the province of New-York in North America ... / by Claude Joseph Sauthier. (London: Engraved and published by William Faden, 1779). A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina ... / by Thos. Hutchins. (London: Engraved by T. Cheevers, 1778); Course of the river Mississippi from the Balise to Fort Chartres ... / by Lieut. Ross (London: Robt. Sayer, 1775.). Maps bear imprint dates of 1774-1780. The maps are hand-colored.
  5. ↑ Yokota, Kariann Akemi. 2011. Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation. Oxford University Press. Page 30.
  6. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images ( [1]  : accessed 05 June 2019), memorial page for William Faden (1750–1836), Find A Grave Memorial no. 86785379, citing St Nicholas Churchyard, Shepperton, Spelthorne Borough, Surrey, England; Maintained by julia & keld (contributor 46812479)
  7. ↑ Welsch, Charles. 1885. A Bookseller of the Last Century. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh. Pages 43-44.
  8. ↑ Macnair, Andrew, and Tom Williamson. 2010. William Faden and Norfolk's 18th century landscape: a digital re-assessment of his historic map. Bollington: Windgather.
personal data
SURNAME Faden, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English cartographer and royal geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1749
DATE OF DEATH 1836