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Editing early and historical atlases
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ISBN: 080200623X 1442615079 9786612003073 1282003070 1442674261 9781442674264 9780802006233 Year: 1995 Publisher: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press

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The essays in this collection focus on two areas of inquiry: original editing problems associated with various atlases, from the earliest to the most recent, including the products of early author-publisher partnerships as well as modern multi-disciplinary editorial and cartographic teams; and the analysis of a variety of different atlases, to give a diverse picture of an important reference work as it has evolved through the ages. The papers throw light on the nature and history of the evolution of the atlas as a book, and also on the atlas as a 'text' of contemporary times. The atlas, one of the oldest types of geographic encyclopedias and reference works, has often been thought of as simply a group of maps bound together. Yet every atlas is conceived and shaped, put into meaningful order and made uniform in some way by its author, editor, or publisher. Editing Early and Historical Atlases was the title and focus of the twenty-ninth annual Conference on Editorial Problems, organized in honour of the completion of the final volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada.


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International maps and atlases in print
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ISBN: 0859350363 9780859350365 Year: 1976 Publisher: London New York Bowker


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The Times comprehensive atlas of the world.
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ISBN: 0723007926 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Times books


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Courtiers and cannibals, angels and amazons : the art of the decorative cartographic titlepage
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ISBN: 9789061940609 Year: 2009 Publisher: Houten Hes & De Graaf

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Over the time period covered by the present publication - roughly from the 1470s to the 1870s - very many printed books opened with an attractive decorative titleplage of frontispiece; sometimes both. In this book a limited selection has been made from the extremely wide field of known titlepages, mainly by a focus on subject matter which is primarily cartography, geography, history and topography, together with associated disciplines such as astronomy, travel and exploration.

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