SDUK Map of Dublin Author(s)_Pierce Egan A New and Correct Map

A New and Correct Map of North Wales

concluding with the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy

and his son

further sheets were available to extend coverage as far as Greenwich

SDUK Map of Dublin Author(s)_Pierce Egan A New and Correct MapThis map of Dublin was engraved by Edmund Turrell after William Barnard Clarke for The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The SDUK was founded in 1826 with the high minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self taught members of the working and lower middle classes. Some of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year