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Poland Divided into Eight Palatinates...by J and C Walker

£45.00 Approx $56.75, €52.51

Code: 53810



Date 1844

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK).   Overall unmounted size : 34.7cms x 41.8 cms ; image size : 326mm x 389mm including bottom imprint. Steel engraving with outline hand colouring. Engraved by J.&C.Walker. One brown mark in Pomerania and odd mark to margins else very good condition. The borders of Poland and its palatinates are outlined by hand colouring. The city of Krakow is divided from the Voivode of Krakow and labelled as a 'Republic,' while adjoining parts of Russian Poland, Austrian Poland, Prussian Poland, Silesia, Pomerania, Moravia, and East Prussia are outlined in hand colour.


Benevolent societies whose intentions were to disseminate knowledge were a distinguishing feature of the Victorian age. This society was founded in 1827 by John, Earl Russell and Henry Brougham, later Lord Chancellor of England. Earl Russell was an M.P. who was responsible for setting up an inspectorate for schools and an additional grant of £30, 000 for education.
The society published books that were deemed to be of high educational worth but produced them at a price that was affordable. Their greatest publication, most probably, was their atlas of the world entitled ‘Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge’.The town and city plans in this series are particularly prized now - these fine steel engravings have original hand colouring and are often embellished with vignettes and comparisons of the heights of the principal buildings of the city.