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I would just like to bring to everyone's attention a new book in our
field --
       Winearls, Joan, editor
       Editing Early and Historical Atlases. Toronto: University
       of Toronto Press, 1995. ISBN: 0-8020-0623-X. $39.95
       UK/European Price (whatever that means)- L 26.00 $44.75
 
These are the Papers from the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference on Editorial
Problems, University of Toronto, 5-6 November, 1993
     The papers are all excellent (no bias here) and are on a variety of
topics on atlases. There are 22 illustrations and tables.
 They are as follows:
 
James R. Akerman `From Books with Maps to Books as Maps: The Editor in
the Creation of the Atlas Idea' p. 3-48
 
Walter A. Goffart `Breaking the Ortelian Pattern: Historical Atlases
with a New Program, 1747-1830 p. 49-82
 
Mary Sponberg Pedley `Commode, complet, uniforme et suivi': Problems in
Atlas Editing in Enlightenment France' p. 83-108
 
Anne Godlewska `Jomard: The Geographic Imagination and The First Great
Facsimile Atlases' p. 109- 136
 
William G. Dean `Atlas Structures and Their Influence on Editorial
Decisions: Two Recent Case Histories' p. 137- 162
 
R. Cole Harris `Maps as a Morality Play: Volume I of the Historical
Atlas of Canada' p. 163-180
 
Deryck W. Holdsworth `The politics of Editing a National Historical
Atlas: A Commentary' p. 181-196
 
Joan Winearls
Map Librarian                     Tel: 416 978-1958
University of Toronto Library     e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Toronto M5S 1A5                   Fax: 416 978-7653