Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Largest book in the world goes on show for the first time


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Klencke Atlas, which is 350 years old, will be displayed as part of British Library exhibition on maps

Klencke Atlas

The Klencke Atlas has never been publicly displayed with its pages open before. Photograph: British Library

It takes six people to lift it and has been recorded as the largest book in the world, yet the splendid Klencke Atlas, presented to Charles II on his restoration and now 350 years old, has never been publicly displayed with its pages open. That glaring omission is to be rectified, it was announced by the British Library today, when it will be displayed as one of the stars of its big summer exhibition about maps.

The summer show will feature about 100 maps, considered some of the greatest in the world, with three-quarters of them going on display for the first time.

At the exhibition's core will be wall maps, many of them huge, which tell a story that is much more than geography. Many of them, said the library's head of map collections, Peter Barber: "Hold their own with great works of art." [...]


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/26/klencke-atlas-british-library-exhibition

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