Edward Weller FRGS was a British engraver and cartographer who was one of the first to produce maps using lithography.[1]
He was a London-based engraver, cartographer and publisher, working from offices in Red Lion Square and later, Bloomsbury, who produced detailed steel plate engraved maps.[
The Weekly Despatch Atlas was published in parts between 1857 and 1863. The plates were then acquired by Cassell who published the collection as an atlas in 1863. A second edition was published in 1865. The plates were later purchased by G W Bacon, who re-issued the maps in 1876.