The Work of John Cary and His Successors

Abstract

THE name of John Cary is associated for nearly three-quarters 1 of a century with Geographical publications, including canal plans, road-maps, maps, atlases, road-books and itineraries, as well as geological maps and sections and terrestrial and celestial globes. With the exception of the globes, the exhibition now arranged, while not exhaustive, will be found to be very completely representative of his productivity, and of that of his associates and successors. In the manufacture of globes he worked with his better-krlown brother, William Cary (I759-I825), who had a considerable reputation as an astronomical instrument maker, and in his cartographical work he was associated with others of his name, his brothers Francis Cary and George Cary, and his sons John and George. The business and, apparently, the whole stock of engraved plates were transferred to George Frederick Cruchley, of 8I, Fleet Street. in I850, who, in his turn, appears to have sold all this cartographical material in I875 or I876 to Messrs. Gall & Inglis, of Edinburgh.