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Henry C. Carey
Isaac Lea
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Mathew Carey emigrated from Dublin to Philadelphia in 1784. In 1785, he set up a print shop and publishing house, where he was primarily a publisher of journals and serials. His first cartographic production, A General Atlas for the Present War, was issued in 1794, and is based largely upon maps drawn from William Guthrie’s Atlas to Guthrie’s System of Geography, a popular text book of the period first issued in 1770 in London. The maps for this work were engraved by William Barker and Joseph T. Scott.
In 1795, Carey published The General Atlas for Carey’s Edition of Guthrie’s Geography Improved, and included 16 maps of American States. These 16 maps, plus 5 others, were issued under the title American Atlas later in 1795. The American Atlas holds the distinction of being the earliest general atlas of the United States. The engravers included Barker, Scott, James Thackara and John Vallance of Philadelphia, Samuel Hill of Boston, Amos Doolittle of New Haven, Connecticut, and Benjamin Tanner of New York. Samuel Lewis served as geographer, draftsman, mapmaker and penman, and made substantial contributions to he work, before partnering with Aaron Arrowsmith of London.
In 1796, Carey released his General Atlas, which included maps of the rest of the world. This work was issued with periodic updates through 1818 A second edition of Carey’s American Atlas was published in 1809, expanding the American content to 26 maps. During this time period, 2 of the maps which were offered with the atlas do not appear in all editions, Lewis’ Map of the United States and his map of the Old Northwest Territory, which was published to illustrate the United States’ newly obtained land rights obtained in the Treaty of Grenville. Carey would also publish the first miniature atlas published in America, his American Pocket Atlas, published from 1796 to 1814.
Mathew Carey retired in 1822, leaving his son Henry C. Carey and his son-in-law Isaac Lea the publishing house he had built over the prior 38 years. The pair conducted business as Carey & Lea, during which time they published A Complete Historical, Chronological and Geogaphical Atlas from 1822 to 1827 (which included about 20 maps engraved by Fielding Lucase Jr. , as well as an American edition of Starling’s Cabinet Atlas. However, the firm increasingly turned away from Cartographic publications.
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