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Index no. 0011
This atlas is undated. The Holland and Belgium plate shows the frontier between Holland and Belgium. Belgium became a separate country from Holland in 1830. The Germany plate shows Lichtenberg as part of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. It was transferred to Prussia in 1834.
It was originally sold for "4s. colored, 2s. 6d. plain". The equivalent in modern money would be 20p coloured, 12½p plain. In 1833 it would take a footman or housemaid more than a week to earn this much.
The single plates measure about 90mm x 160mm. There are two double plates, England & Wales and Scotland. These two plates (coincidentally) show coalfields, with a very fine shading, done with diagonal lines at about 110 lines to the inch. This is hard to see even looking at the original plates with the naked eye: so I have made copies England & Wales and Scotland in which I have added light blue to indicate where the coalfields are shown.
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