Old Map of Liverpool in 1851 by Tallis & Rapkin - Docks, River Mersey, City Centre vintage maps Wide boulevards reflect French planning

Wide boulevards reflect French planning

and the level of detail across the British Isles is remarkable

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and its powerful claws as it moves through a lush

Old Map of Liverpool in 1851 by Tallis & Rapkin - Docks, River Mersey, City Centre vintage maps Wide boulevards reflect French planningBy 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