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Re: Maps in Ballads
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Reply:  Item #0911943 from [log in to unmask]@INET#on 94/02/24 at 07:38
 
> [ALEPH] Geographical Fun: being humorous outlines of various countries.
> London, [1869]. Each country depicted in this item (all European) is
> caricatured as a human figure or figures, and there is a verse under each
> one.  It has of course been produced as a facsimile :- 'Geographical fun;
> or, humorous outlines of various countries: map caricatures of twelve
> European countries, reprinted from the 1869 collection by Aleph - William
> Harvey. Witney (Oxfordshire): Wychwood Editions, 1990. Introduction by Robin
> L Marsh.
 
The latter map is, I believe, used as cover art for Th Penguin Atlas of Recent
History, by Colin McEvedy.

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