A New British Atlas by Sidney Hall 1836

Published by Chapman and Hall, 186 The Strand, London.

Steel engraved maps with colouring.

Sidney Hall (1788?–1831) was a British engraver and cartographer well known and popular for his early nineteenth century atlases containing maps of the United Kingdom and of the ancient world reproduced from Hall's engravings. Hall made engravings for a number of international atlases.

In 1809 he operated at 5 Vine Street, Piccadilly, London. In 1814 he was in partnership with Michael Thomson operating at 14 Bury Street in the Bloomsbury District and later was listed at 18 Bury Street. Hall is credited with "almost certainly" being the first engraver to use steel plates in map engraving.

Hall died in 1831 at the age of 42. The business was carried on by map engraver Selina Hall, his widow.

The Atlas is complete apart from the 4 plates illustrating inland waterways, which have been removed.