SDUK Family Atlas

City plans, star charts and finely engraved country maps make the SDUK Family Atlas a handsome monument of Victorian geograp...

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City plans, star charts and finely engraved country maps make the SDUK Family Atlas a handsome monument of Victorian geographical education. The edition here was published by Edward Stanford in 1857, continuing the map programme of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Its political sheets record countries and colonies before later changes, with Australia shown before Queensland's separation, and large plans of London and Paris sit beside river comparisons, geological maps and reconstructions of the ancient world. India, the Americas and the Pacific are well represented, and the star charts carry the atlas into the night sky. Selective hand colouring finishes the steel engraving.

City plans, star charts and finely engraved country maps make the SDUK Family Atlas a handsome monument of Victorian geographical education. The edition here was published by Edward Stanford in 1857, continuing the map programme of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Its political sheets record countries and colonies before later changes, with Australia shown before Queensland's separation, and large plans of London and Paris sit beside river comparisons, geological maps and reconstructions of the ancient world. India, the Americas and the Pacific are well represented, and the star charts carry the atlas into the night sky. Selective hand colouring finishes the steel engraving.

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