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Mr le Sage - Original 1801 Engraving. Chart with period hand-colouring. Printed and sold by J Barfield, Wardour Street, printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. This chart was part of a bold venture whereby Mr le Sage sought to teach “History upon a new plan, by which he answers that his Scholar will be fully acquainted with all the modern History in the space of six months, or 72 lessons.” The atlas comprised 20 monthly parts. Le Sage (Marie-Joseph-Emmanuel-Auguste Dieudonné de Las Cases) was an émigré marquis who had become a teacher in London. The plan of the 1801 edition claimed that pupils would find relative spaces impossible to confuse: they would learn from the historical map the distance of time just as they learned the distance of places on the geographical map; they would determine the situation of Elizabeth with respect to William the Conqueror or George the Third just as easily as they would that of London to Edinburgh or Portsmouth. Unsigned. There is a central vertical fold, and tears as shown: a 7cm tear from the upper edge, and an 11 1/2cm tear at the lower edge with losses.
