 They were financed by the map and atlas publisher George Philip and presented themselves for the first time at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany in 1969 with Patrick Moore's "Moonflight Atlas".First titles which were published in 1970 were the "Mitchell Beazley Atlas of the Universe" by Patrick Moore and "Golden Sovereigns" by Nicolas Bentley.In 1976, Mitchell Beazley made a joint venture project with the publisher International Visual Resource from the Netherlands where the encyclopedia "The Joy of Knowledge" was published.