{{Short description|English cartographer}} '''William Faden''' (1749–1836) was an English cartographer and a publisher of maps.<ref name="Worms-2004" /><ref name="Pedley-1996" /><ref name="lehigh.edu" /> He was the royal geographer to King George III. He replaced Thomas Jefferys in that role.<ref name=WDL1>{{cite web|title=A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia, 1777|year=1777|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9563|publisher=World Digital Library|accessdate=February 14, 2013}}</ref>
The title of "geographer to the king" was given to various people in the 18th century, including John Senex, Herman Moll, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Jeffreys. All of these men, including William Faden, were engravers and publishers, not scholars or academics. Their part was to publish and supply maps to the crown and parliament.<ref>Pedley, Mary Sponberg. 2005. The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. University of Chicago Press. Page 33.</ref>
== Life and works == William Faden was born as the son of the printer ''Willam Faden senior'' (1711-1783).<ref>See [https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&reset=true&referrerPosition=0&referrerResultId=idn%3D1017214670%26any&query=idn%3D1037029992 the data] of the German National Library</ref> He self printed the North American Atlas<ref>Faden, William, Thomas Hyde Page, Claude J. 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 harbour.--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. Harbour 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 harbour ... / 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.</ref> in 1777, and "...it became the most important atlas chronicling the Revolution's battles." There were 29 maps in the atlas, and they included detailed battle maps drawn by eyewitnesses.<ref>Yokota, Kariann Akemi. 2011. Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation. Oxford University Press. Page 30.</ref>
William Faden was also the publisher of the periodical "the Public Ledger" or "The Daily Register" in London.<ref>Welsch, Charles. 1885. A Bookseller of the Last Century. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh. Pages 43-44.</ref>
A list of the English county maps printed by William Faden is also given in one of his biographies.<ref>Macnair, Andrew, and Tom Williamson. 2010. William Faden and Norfolk's 18th century landscape: a digital re-assessment of his historic map. Bollington: Windgather.</ref>
==Gallery of maps== <gallery heights="240" widths="300" mode="nolines"> File:The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, commonly called The Jerseys. LOC 74692203 (cropped).jpg|1777 map of New Jersey File:Plan of the Operations of General Washington, against the Kings Troops in New Jersey, from the 26th. of December, 1776, to the 3d. January, 1777.jpg|1777 military map of the Ten Crucial Days during the American Revolutionary War File:William Faden. Composite Mediterranean. 1785.jpg|''A 1785 map of the Mediterranean Sea with the Adjacent Regions and Seas in Europe, Asia and Africa'' File:William Faden. Composite Mediterranean. 1785.N.jpg|Close-up of imprint File:Map of Greece, Archipelago and part of Anadoli; Louis Stanislas d'Arcy Delarochette 1791.jpg|Map of Greece and Anatolia by Louis Stanislas d'Arcy Delarochette, published for William Faden </gallery>
==Bibliography== * Faden, William. 1963. ''Catalogue 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). "Faden, 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
== References == {{reflist|1 |refs = <ref name="Pedley-1996"> {{cite journal |title=Maps, War, and Commerce: Business Correspondence with the London Map Firm of Thomas Jefferys and William Faden |author=Pedley, Mary |journal=Imago Mundi |volume=48 |pages=161–173 |year=1996 |doi=10.1080/03085699608592838 |jstor=1151268}} {{subscription required}} </ref> <ref name="Worms-2004">{{cite journal |title=The Maturing of British Commercial Cartography: William Faden (1749-1836) and the Map Trade |author=Worms, Laurence |doi=10.1179/000870404225019972 |journal=The Cartographic Journal |volume=41 |number=1 |pages=5–11 |date=June 2004|s2cid=140642456 }} </ref> <ref name="lehigh.edu">{{cite web |url=http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/dse/atlas/4/ |title=William Faden (1749-1836) |publisher=Lehigh University Press |work=Digital Scholarly Editions}} </ref> }}
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