John Cooke - Cartographic Works

21. A Geography textbook with 20 plates inc. maps

21.1. Title: A GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF GEOGRAPHY, WITH THE PROJECTION OF MAPS AND CHARTS ... BY JOHN COOKE, GEOGRAPHER, AND LATE ENGRAVER TO THE ADMIRALTY.
Date: 1812.
Size: 270 x 210 mm.
Imprint(s): LONDON: Printed for JAMES COOKE, 57, High-Street, Bloomsbury; and sold by LONGMAN & Co., etc. ... 1812.

Signature(s): All maps and diagrams bear an imprint: London, Pubd [date] by John Cooke, No. 57 High Street, Bloomsbury or Engraved (&) Pubd [date] by J Cooke, No. 57 High Street, Bloomsbury.
Location(s): BL, KB. Also at Wisconsin.[1]

Comments: A complete manual of geography illustrated by twenty copper-plates. A 42-page review (i.e., synopsis) of all the great mathematicians, astrologers and geographers of the past followed by five sections: Geometrical Definitions, Geometrical Problems, Astronomical Definitions, Tables of Constellations &c and How to Project Maps. This part includes 4 plates; the Frontispiece, The Moon in her mean libration dated Sept 1st 1808, as engraved by Miss Mary Cooke; 2 attractive plates, the Solar System, and the Vicissitudes of the Season; and the diagram on Refraction and Reflection (all unnumbered, approx. 270 x 210 mm). Plates 5 to 19 are all folding, size 300 mm x 190 on sheet 330 x 245 mm unless otherwise stated.

Plates 5-8: mathematical shapes.

Supplementary Plate (unnumbered).

Plate 9: Cooke´s Geographical Definitions.

Plate 19: The World (both Hemispheres on one sheeet: 350 mm x 190 on sheet 400 x 270 mm (folding).

Plate 10: Geometrical Construction.

Plate 11: Examples of Mercators Projection.

Plate 12: Europe and Asia.

Plate 13: Africa.

Plate 14: Europe and North America.

Plate 15: South America.

Plate 16: Russia.

Plate 17: Eastern Hemisphere

Plate 18: Western Hemisphere: each engraving 250 mm diameter on sheet 310 x 470 mm (folding).

In:

A General Synopsis of Geography
London. James Cooke. 1812.

21.2 Titles:

1. AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCES IN General and

2. THE GEOMETRICAL, Astronomical and Geographical Definitions both By John Cooke, engraver, and Geographer.
Date: 1816.
Size: 270 x 210 mm.
Imprint(s):

1. PUBLISHED BY E NILE at the copper-plate engraving and printing office, new road, stonehouse, near plymouth. 1816. and

2. LONDON: Printed for the proprietor, E nile, bookseller, union-street, new-road, stonehouse, near plymouth; and sold by all other booksellers in the united kingdom. 1816.
Signature(s): See below.
Location(s): YALE.[2]

Comments: The first two sections of the Synopsis of Geography appeared as separate parts in 1816, linking John Cooke with both E Nile and the copper-plate engraving and printing office for the first time. Each section has a new title page but the printed pages are clearly surplus stock from the 1812 print run. Part One comprises the 42-page review as before and the 4 plates begin with Mary Cooke´s The Moon in her mean libration (of 1808) and include the Solar System, the Vicissitudes of the Seasons and the diagram on Refraction and Reflection, the latter two now Engraved & Published Jan 1 by J Cooke Howland Street Fitzroy S^q.

The second part includes Plates 5 to 8 and a Supplementary Plate, which all show geometric shapes etc., and Plate 9 Cooke´s Geographical Definitions and shows the techniques for shading. All imprints are as original Synopsis (but all maps from original publication are omitted).

1. An Historical Introduction to the Sciences in General
Stonehouse. E Nile. 1816.

2. The Geometrical, Astronomical and Geographical Definitions
Stonehouse. E Nile. 1816.

[1] With the copy listed as part of the American Geographical Society Library collection at the University of Milwaukee, these are the only recorded copies but see below for an account of a reprint in installments.

[2] The only recorded copy in this state, see also page 61ff.

Link to Map 22.