Times Atlas of the World
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The first edition of "The Times Atlas of the World" appeared as "The Times Atlas" in 1895. It was published at the office of "The Times" in London, contained 117 pages of maps with an alphabetical index of 130,000 names, and was an English translation of the second edition (with some maps of the third edition) of the German "Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas". Some more printings followed up to 1900. The second generation of the atlas was issued in 1922 as "The Times Survey Atlas of the World" and was prepared at the "Edinburgh Geographical Institute" under the direction of J. G. Bartholomew. It contained 112 double page maps with 200,000 names and measured 47 x 33 centimetres. The third generation, based on the second, was Bartholomew's famous blue five-volume set of folio atlases issued 1955-59 as "The Times Atlas of the World. Mid-Century Edition" by "The Times Publishing Company Ltd." in London (120 leaves of maps, 200,000 names). An edition in one volume (in which the maps were printed back to back - some on a fractionally smaller scale) was published in 1967 as "The Times Atlas of the World. Comprehensive Edition" (123 leaves of maps, 9th edition 1992). This edition also appeared in a German, a Dutch and a French translation. The tenth - "Millennium" - edition (1999) is in reality the first representative of the fourth generation. In contrast to its predecessors, it is completely produced by means of computer-cartography: "The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World", published by "Times Books" in London (124 leaves of maps). Contents are slightly different in scale, or in arrangement.
