A folio sized atlas produced for educational purposes in as the title states the eighth year of the Republic (‘An Huit de la Republique’). The contents match those found on the title however, the numeration does not match those found on the maps themselves. There were two authors. Pierre Gregoire Chanlaire (1758-1817) and Edme Mentelle (1730-1815), both geographers. Mentelle was a historian also whilst Chanlaire was a publisher. They first collaborated on ‘L’Atlas Universel de Geographie’ in 1797. The maps were largely engraved by Pierre Antoine Tardieu (1784-1869) who was a well-known engraver and mapmaker in Paris and part of an extensive family involved in the profession. He worked initially with his father Antoine Francois Tardieu (1757-1822), himself an established cartographer, before setting up on his own. He is credited with being the first mapmaker to engrave on steel. Shirley (2004) T.Ment 2a (with differing contents); Tooley’s Dictionary (1999-2004).