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Large scale detailed map of Australia, laid on linen as issued. Explorers tracks are shown and inset of the world at lower sheet edge is included, with the tracks of an overland voyage in blue. Founder of one of the … Read Full Description
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Large scale detailed map of Australia, laid on linen as issued.
Explorers tracks are shown and inset of the world at lower sheet edge is included, with the tracks of an overland voyage in blue. Founder of one of the most prominent geographical publishing houses in the 19th who took over the stock of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Edward Stanford (1827 - 1904)
Stanford was apprenticed as a printer and stationer he founded his business in partnership with Saunders in 1852 as "Saunders & Stanford" but it was dissolved in 1853. He then founded "Stanford's Geographical Establishment" 1857, employing Saunders and Alexander Keith Johnston to prepare maps. By 1864 he was employing twenty-eight men and thirteen boys. He acquired John Arrowsmith's stock at auction in 1874. By 1881 with his son Edward Standford II (1856-1917) acting as his assistant, his staff had grown to sixty-five men, nineteen boys and three women He retired in 1882 and his son took over. The firm still exists.
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