the figure on the cover of deep learning with python is captioned "habit of persian lady in the illustration is taken from thomas jefferysa collection of the dresses of different nationsancient and modern (four volumes)londonpublished between and the title page states that these are hand-colored copperplate engravingsheightened with gum arabic thomas jefferys ( - was called "geographer to king george iii he was an english cartographer who was the leading map supplier of his day he engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced wide range of commercial maps and atlasesespecially of north america his work as map maker sparked an interest in local dress customs of the lands he surveyed and mappedwhich are brilliantly displayed in this collection fascination with faraway lands and travel for pleasure were relatively new phenomena in the late eighteenth centuryand collections such as this one were popularintroducing both the tourist as well as the armchair traveler to the inhabitants of other countries the diversity of the drawings in jefferysvolumes speaks vividly of the uniqueness and individuality of the world' nations some years ago dress codes have changed since thenand the diversity by region and countryso rich at the timehas faded away it' now often hard to tell the inhabitants of one continent from another perhapstrying to view it optimisticallywe've traded cultural and visual diversity for more varied personal life--or more varied and interesting intellectual and technical life at time when it' difficult to tell one computer book from anothermanning celebrates the inventiveness and initiative of the computer business with book covers based on the rich diversity of regional life of two centuries agobrought back to life by jefferyspictures xxi licensed to