The Queen Mary Atlas Folio Society LE 2005
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The Queen Mary Atlas - Folio Society limited edition 2005
This magnificent limited edition is the tallest book ever published by the FS, was one of the slowest LEs to sell out (14 years) and is one of my favourite FS books. It is bound by Smith Settle in acres of luxurious dark red calf leather, blocked on the spine with a gilt pattern, and on the front cover with an intricate combined coat-of-arms of England and Spain in black and gilt.
There are twelve double page maps, bound on a guard so that the maps lie flat. The maps are printed in six colours (including gold and silver) on amazingly thick imitation vellum, that not only beautifully reproduce the maps, but even the stains (including plate marks) on the back of the maps, where a careless user damaged them at some time in the last 500 years.
The Atlas was commissioned by Queen Mary in about 1555 from Diego Homem, the best cartographer in the world at that time, as a gift for her husband Philip II of Spain.
The solidly built dark red buckram solander box is a very impressive 62cm tall, 43.5cm wide and 6cm thick (that’s 25 x 17.5 x 2.4 inches for those still in the 19th. century). It has a spine title label, and a cover gilt printed title.
The companion commentary volume by Peter Barber has 87 pages and is a relatively modest 30.5x19.5cm (still larger than nearly all FS standard editions). It covers the historical context of the atlas, and then describes each of the maps in detail. There is a bibliography at the back of the book. Unusually for a limited edition companion volume, it is also illustrated, with eight pages of historic maps in full colour. It is bound in dark red buckram with a cover title label and gilt spine title.
The atlas was limited to 1000 copies and was originally sold for £795. The endpapers are plain maroon with the colophon pasted to the front endpaper recto.
Solander box
Reproduction of staining on back of map
Commentary volume
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
This magnificent limited edition is the tallest book ever published by the FS, was one of the slowest LEs to sell out (14 years) and is one of my favourite FS books. It is bound by Smith Settle in acres of luxurious dark red calf leather, blocked on the spine with a gilt pattern, and on the front cover with an intricate combined coat-of-arms of England and Spain in black and gilt.
There are twelve double page maps, bound on a guard so that the maps lie flat. The maps are printed in six colours (including gold and silver) on amazingly thick imitation vellum, that not only beautifully reproduce the maps, but even the stains (including plate marks) on the back of the maps, where a careless user damaged them at some time in the last 500 years.
The Atlas was commissioned by Queen Mary in about 1555 from Diego Homem, the best cartographer in the world at that time, as a gift for her husband Philip II of Spain.
The solidly built dark red buckram solander box is a very impressive 62cm tall, 43.5cm wide and 6cm thick (that’s 25 x 17.5 x 2.4 inches for those still in the 19th. century). It has a spine title label, and a cover gilt printed title.
The companion commentary volume by Peter Barber has 87 pages and is a relatively modest 30.5x19.5cm (still larger than nearly all FS standard editions). It covers the historical context of the atlas, and then describes each of the maps in detail. There is a bibliography at the back of the book. Unusually for a limited edition companion volume, it is also illustrated, with eight pages of historic maps in full colour. It is bound in dark red buckram with a cover title label and gilt spine title.
The atlas was limited to 1000 copies and was originally sold for £795. The endpapers are plain maroon with the colophon pasted to the front endpaper recto.
Solander box
Reproduction of staining on back of map
Commentary volume
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
