John Tallis

John Tallis

John Tallis (1815 or 1816 – 3 June 1876) was an English cartographic publisher.Boase, F., Modern English biography", 6 vols, 1892-1921] His company, John Tallis and Company, published views, maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851.

Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846, and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started "The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages" in 1858, selling it for £1,370 in 1861; it folded in 1863.

He lived in New Cross, South East London.

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