SDUK Map of Dublin Author(s)_Pierce Egan concluding with the seven kingdoms

concluding with the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy

On a scroll in the lower left of the map

and his son

printed area measures 15

due to demand for cotton from northern textile mills and heavy involvement with the Atlantic slave trade

SDUK Map of Dublin Author(s)_Pierce Egan concluding with the seven kingdomsThis 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