BLAKE (John Lauris).
A Geographical, Chronological, and Historical Atlas, on a new and improved plan; or, a view of the present state of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies in the known World. ... illustrated by charts and engravings.
Unusual school “atlas”, conceived along the lines of Charles Valentin Lavoisne’s Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas (Philadelphia, 1820). The ‘Rail Road’ plate depicts a George Stevenson steam train (in the foreground), with a depiction, in profile, of the line from the Hetton Collieries to Sunderland, used for hauling coal to the docks for trans-shipment; this is an early depiction of a steam-train, predating Stevenson’s opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, the first passenger railway in the world, by four years.