Click to view. The comprehensive edition of the Times Atlas of the World, which has become a standard work of reference for decades now, is regarded by many as the finest reference atlas ever made. The 115 magnificent plates are produced by the renowned cartographers of Bartholomew. The latest edition, the 9th, appeared in 1993 as a single volume with a gleaming black cover, with additional revisions in the 1994 and 1997 release. The plates in the atlas are characterized by sublime use of colors, amazing accuracy, a balanced use of various scale sizes and projection types, and varying typefaces which are sometimes so romantic that legibility suffers from it as a consequence.
Some plates are of plain good quality while some are astoundingly excellent.
The atlas also contains interesting sections on the galaxy, our earth, and a good map of the moon. The index-gazetteer is renowned. It contains about 203,000 entries along with latitude and longitude coordinates. The gazetteer is stored on magnetic tape and is updated as each entry is checked against its location on the map. The release of the tenth edition has been delayed, and is now scheduled for 1999.