Sidney Hall's
Thirty-two plates of the Constellations, published in 'Urania's Mirror'
or 'A View of the Heavens' by Jehoshaphat Aspin (first edition 1825).
Ian Ridpath, author of 'Star
Tales',
http://www.ianridpath.com/
provided me with extra information.
On page 68 of his Astronomical Atlases, Maps & Charts (Search
Publishing Company, London, 1932) Basil Brown writes with regard to
Sidney Hall's plates:
"The engravings of this atlas are finely executed,
with the stars denoted in a novel manner, i.e. perforated to size,
according to magnitudes, so as to be visible against a light ground.
This work is rather scarce, and copies are not easily obtained."
I have two plates: Gemini (plate 18) and Libra (plate
22).
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These plates were
published by Samuel Leigh.
Urania's Mirror was reissued
in 1993 by CatherineTennant as 'The Box of Stars: A Practical Guide to
the Mythology of the Night Sky', published by Chatto & Windus. It
was also translated in Dutch and called: 'De STERREN in een DOOSJE'
(information received from Peter van Grijfland).
