SDUK Map of Dublin Author(s)_Pierce Egan Course of the River Mole

Course of the River Mole

the best account of the continent available in English at the time

nicknamed ‘Kätchen’

where the map is tabbed into the book

A New and Correct Map of North Wales

SDUK Map of Dublin Author(s)_Pierce Egan Course of the River MoleThis 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