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Fine full color example of Jeffery's important plan of the Siege of Quebec, offered here in the third and most desirable edition of the map, which is substantially updated from earlier editions which were prepared prior to the surrender of the City to the British in September 1759. The definitive state of the most important and detailed plan of Quebec from the French & Indian War.
The third state of Jeffery's map has been extensively revised to include significant information which occurred subsequent to the publication of the earlier states. The earlier states of the map omit much of the battle information, especially with respect to the positions of troops, ships and fortifications in the north part of the map.
The map was sold seperately for 2 shillings (as noted in the lower right corner of the map, below the neatline. This edition of the map was also included in Jefferys'
The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America . . . , published in 1760 and Jeffery's extremely rare American atlas,
The General Topography of North America, published in 1768.
Thomas Jefferys (ca. 1719-1771) was a prolific map publisher, engraver, and cartographer based in London. His father was a cutler, but Jefferys was apprenticed to Emanuel Bowen, a prominent mapmaker and engraver. He was made free of the Merchant Taylors’ Company in 1744, although two earlier maps bearing his name have been identified.
Jefferys had several collaborators and partners throughout his career. His first atlas, The Small English Atlas, was published with Thomas Kitchin in 1748-9. Later, he worked with Robert Sayer on A General Topography of North America (1768); Sayer also published posthumous collections with Jefferys' contributions including The American Atlas, The North-American Pilot, and The West-India Atlas.
Jefferys was the Geographer to Frederick Prince of Wales and, from 1760, to King George III. Thanks especially to opportunities offered by the Seven Years' War, he is best known today for his maps of North America, and for his central place in the map trade—he not only sold maps commercially, but also imported the latest materials and had ties to several government bodies for whom he produced materials.
Upon his death in 1771, his workshop passed to his partner, William Faden, and his son, Thomas Jr. However, Jefferys had gone bankrupt in 1766 and some of his plates were bought by Robert Sayer (see above). Sayer, who had partnered in the past with Philip Overton (d. 1751), specialized in (re)publishing maps. In 1770, he partnered with John Bennett and many Jefferys maps were republished by the duo.
