allowing for a gallery-worthy display in any home or office
or anyone whose family has a connection to one of the stations named here
and the ancient stannary system that governed the tin trade shapes much of what this map records
and vintage aesthetic make this map a striking addition to any history classroom
and ornamental flourish minus distracting glare
Old Map of Liverpool in 1851 by Tallis & Rapkin - Docks, River Mersey, City Centre vintage maps allowing for a gallery-worthy displayBy the middle of the nineteenth century, Liverpool had grown into the busiest port outside London, a position confirmed in the same year, 1851, that the publisher John Tallis issued his Illustrated Atlas of the World with engraving by John Rapkin. Produced to ride the wave of public interest generated by that year's Great Exhibition, the atlas gave Liverpool its own decorative city plan, surrounded by engraved vignette views in the style that made