Background:

These unique prints are from a "Family Cabinet Atlas" published in 1831 in England.  The Atlas was intended to be small enough to put on a bookshelf (cabinet) or taken with you when you traveled.  Each map is provided with a legend listing the names of cities on the map, and their location as identified by longitude and latitude.  The object of the Atlas, as stated in the Preface, was "to supply with distinctness and accuracy the greatest quantity of geographical information in the smallest possible compass".