The Student's Atlas

Constructed and engraved by John Bartholomew, these maps from The Student's Atlas brought clear, compact geography to the Vi...

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Constructed and engraved by John Bartholomew, these maps from The Student's Atlas brought clear, compact geography to the Victorian classroom; the atlas was published by William Collins Sons and Company in 1870. The sheets cover the political divisions of Europe and the Americas, including France, the Netherlands and Belgium, Spain and Portugal, the Balkans, the West Indies and South America, with broad regional coverage and well-organised boundaries. Historical maps appear alongside the contemporary ones, so a sheet of Turkey in Europe and Greece may draw on earlier territorial history while belonging to a nineteenth-century educational atlas.

Constructed and engraved by John Bartholomew, these maps from The Student's Atlas brought clear, compact geography to the Victorian classroom; the atlas was published by William Collins Sons and Company in 1870. The sheets cover the political divisions of Europe and the Americas, including France, the Netherlands and Belgium, Spain and Portugal, the Balkans, the West Indies and South America, with broad regional coverage and well-organised boundaries. Historical maps appear alongside the contemporary ones, so a sheet of Turkey in Europe and Greece may draw on earlier territorial history while belonging to a nineteenth-century educational atlas.

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