John Tallis

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Photograph of cartographic publisher John Tallis, ca.1858 '''John Tallis''' (7 November 1817<ref>John Tallis's London street views, 1838-1840, c2002: p. 19 (born at Stourbridge, Worcestershire, on 7 Nov. 1817); p. 35 (died 25 May 1876)</ref> – 3 June 1876) was an English cartographic publisher.<ref name="Boase">Boase, F., ''Modern English biography'', 6 vols, 1892-1921</ref> His company, John Tallis & Company, published views, maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851.

Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846, and was dissolved in 1849.<ref name="Boase" /> From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis & Company.<ref name="Boase" /> He started the ''Illustrated News of the World'' which issued engraved portraits as supplements in a series entitled ‘National Portrait Gallery of eminent personages' in 1858, selling it for £1,370 in 1861; it folded in 1863.<ref name="Boase" /> The series was subsequently republished in a number of separate volumes.

He lived in New Cross, South East London. His house on New Cross Road is listed as a Building of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, grade II. It has a blue plaque on the wall to signal the event.<ref>[http://openplaques.org/people/78 Historical plaques about John Tallis]</ref>

== Gallery == <gallery> File:John-Tallis-1851-Tibet-Mongolia-and-Manchuria-33621.jpg|Map of the northern and western part of the Chinese Empire - "Tibet, Mongolia, and Manchuria", from Tallis' atlas of the world (1851) File:Modern Palestine, Illustrated atlas, and modern history of the World, 1851.jpg|Map of Palestine in 1851, showing the Kaza subdivisions. At the time, the region shown was split between the Sidon Eyalet and the Damascus Eyalet File:1850 Tallis Map of the Cape Colony.png|1850 Tallis Map of the Cape Colony File:1851 Tallis map of British Possessions in the Mediterranean (engraved by John Rapkin).jpg|1851 Tallis map of British Possessions in the Mediterranean (engraved by John Rapkin) File:1851 Tallis Map of Mexico, Texas, and California - Geographicus - MexicoTexas2-tallis-1851.jpg|1851 Tallis Map of Mexico File:Map titled 'Kabul, the Punjab, and Balochistan', by John Tallis, London, 1851.png|Map titled 'Kabul, the Punjab, and Balochistan', by John Tallis, London, 1851 File:Map of British India, showing principal administrative divisions, London & New York, 1851.png|Map of British India, showing principal administrative divisions, London & New York, 1851 </gallery>

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==External links== *[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051808932&seq=1 John Tallis London Street Views 1838-1840] A collection of sketches of London streets and businesses from the early Victorian era

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