John Gibson (flourished in London 1750 to his death in 1792) was an English cartographer, geographer, draughtsman and engraver. [1]
Recognized as an important late eighteenth-century British cartographer, a contemporary of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and skilled engraver, [2] spent most of his life in prison because of several debts, however, produced thousands of maps and its best-known work in 1758 was called the pocket atlas Atlas Minimus. [3] [4] He worked also for the Gentleman's Magazine [5] for which engraved different decorative maps. He also published his own work in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure , The Universal Museum and The Universal Traveller.
