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Conference Conference on Editorial Problems (29th : 1993 : University of Toronto)

Title Editing early and historical atlases : papers given at the twenty-ninth annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 5-6 November, 1993 / edited by Joan Winearls.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 199 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Conference on Editorial Problems
Conference on Editorial Problems.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents From books with maps to books as maps : the editor in the creation of the atlas idea / James R. Akerman -- Breaking the Ortelian pattern : historical atlases with a new program, 1747-1830 / Walter A. Goffart -- 'Commode, complet, uniforme, et suivi' : problems in atlas editing in Enlightenment France / Mary Sponberg Pedley -- Jomard : the geographic imagination and the first great facsimile atlases / Anne Godlewska -- Atlas structures and their influence on editorial decisions : two recent case histories / William G. Dean -- Maps as a morality play : volume I of the Historical atlas of Canada / R. Cole Harris -- The politics of editing a national historical atlas : a commentary / Deryck W. Holdsworth.
Summary The atlas, one of the oldest types of geographic encyclopedias and reference works, has often been thought of as simply a group of maps bound together. Yet every atlas is conceived and shaped, put into meaningful order and made uniform in some way by its author, editor, or publisher. Editing Early and Historical Atlases was the title and focus of the twenty-ninth annual Conference on Editorial Problems, organized in honour of the completion of the final volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada.
The essays in this collection focus on two areas of inquiry: original editing problems associated with various atlases, from the earliest to the most recent, including the products of early author-publisher partnerships as well as modern multi-disciplinary editorial and cartographic teams; and the analysis of a variety of different atlases, to give a diverse picture of an important reference work as it has evolved through the ages. The papers throw light on the nature and history of the evolution of the atlas as a book, and also on the atlas as a 'text' of contemporary times.
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Subject Atlases -- Editing -- Congresses.
Atlases -- Editing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Winearls, Joan.
Other Form: Print version: Conference on Editorial Problems (29th : 1993 : University of Toronto). Editing early and historical atlases. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1995 (DLC) 95208871 (OCoLC)33991892
ISBN 9781442674264 (electronic book)
1442674261 (electronic book)
080200623X
9780802006233