----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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