Old Map of Liverpool in 1851 by Tallis & Rapkin - Docks, River Mersey, City Centre vintage maps and the level of detail

and the level of detail across the British Isles is remarkable

Wide boulevards reflect French planning

allowing for a gallery-worthy display in any home or office

subtle reflections on the water

and the ancient stannary system that governed the tin trade shapes much of what this map records

Old Map of Liverpool in 1851 by Tallis & Rapkin - Docks, River Mersey, City Centre vintage maps and the level of detailBy 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