Exclusive globe-makers Bellerby & Co have chosen Stanfords to be the first shop to stock their handmade globes.
Bellerby & Co established two years ago, and their first edition globes The Britannia and The Perano are now available. Each globe is hand-coloured, the timber used for the table tops is oak up to 200 years old, while the brass is cast in Bellerby’s foundry.
The company’s owner, Peter Bellerby says, “We established with the aim of making beautiful globes affordable… Entirely handmade, they represent quality and beauty that is unrivalled.”
The Britannia map reflects contemporary country borders and boundaries and is lettered in a custom 18th-century font designed by James Mosley, a distinguished typographer who ran St Bride’s printing library in London for most of the last half of the 19th century.
The Perano has been designed with brown ochre oceans and lighter continents reflecting similar globes from the 18th century.
You can come to our Covent Garden store to see them for yourself – find the Britannia globe on our ground floor in the globes section and the Perano terrestrial globe in the basement in the antique mapping section.
Author: Rachel Ricks