Atlas of Stars & Planets is a book for children and young adults produced
and published in London by George Philip Ltd, the
long-established map company. In the US it is published by
Facts on File under the title Stars
& Planets Atlas and with a
different cover design, but the content is the same.
It is a companion to David and Jill
Wright’s Children’s
Atlas, also a Philip’s/Facts
on File co-production. I adopted their idea of using postage
stamps as illustrations, from which grew my hobby of collecting
astronomy and space themed stamps. You can see some of my astro-stamp
collection elsewhere on my
web pages.
The book first appeared in 1992, with
updated editions in 1997 and 2001. A reset and redesigned
fourth edition was published in 2004 in the UK and
Commonwealth, and in the US in 2005.
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