Mary Sponberg Pedley Editor

Matthew H. Edney is Osher Professor in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Cartography: The Ideal and Its History and Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. Mary Sponberg Pedley is assistant curator of maps at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-century France and England, also published by Chicago, and Bel et Utile: The Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers.