Accession No

6600

Brief Description

Stokes’s Capital Mnemonical globe, folding paper / card terrestrial globe with superimposed human face, designed by William Stokes, published by Houlston and Sons, English, c. 1867

Origin

England; London

Maker

William Stokes [designer] Houlston and Sons [publisher] Emshe and Sons [printer]

Class

cartography; demonstration; psychology

Earliest Date

1867

Latest Date

1867

Inscription Date

Material

paper (paper, card); metal (brass?); plastic (sellotape)

Dimensions

558mm (height) x 750mm (width) x 4mm (depth)

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Bonhams, Montpellier St., Knightsbridge, London, SW7 1HH. Lot 4, Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases and Historical Photographs sale, Bonhams Knightsbridge, 18/03/2015.

Inscription

STOKES’S CAPITAL MNEMONICAL GLOBE
(Copyright)
One Shilling,
by Post.14 Stamps of
MR. WILLIAM STOKES,
Teacher of Memory,
Royal Polytechnic Institution, London, W.
Ent.d of Stationers Hall
Emshe & Sons, Engravers & Printers
PUBLISHED BY HOULSTON & SONS

Description Notes

Stokes’s Capital Mnemonical globe, folding card terrestrial globe with superimposed human face, designed by William Stokes, published by Houlston and Sons, English, c. 1868

Mnemonical globe designed by William Stokes of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London and published by Houlston & Sons. 8 engraved gores with a faint human face engraved across the African and American continents. The Greenwich meridian runs directly down the centre of the face. Mounted on black cardboard.

Paper segments are joined at the equator and have eyelets in the top and bottom to join them together with string and form a paper globe. The joins between gores are quite worn and one has failed. Two of the metal eyelets are no longer there and a small hole has been punched above the first one that’s missing (on the bottom left) to enable the globe to still be fixed together. Light foxing.

Condition: good/fair, complete.

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