Dec 10, 2024
The SDUK’s Map Series
Among the publications that the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) produced to further its aim of easing the access to information for the working and middle classes was The Penny Cyclopaedia which was to run to twenty-seven volumes and three supplements. Published in 1833 it is said to have been consulted by Herman Melville while he was writing Moby Dick (1851). However,…
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