Scotland.
Macredie, Alexander.
Playfair, James,1738-1819.
Thomas Kerr and Co.
Edinburgh : Thos. Kerr & Co.,
[1839].
Relief shown by hachures and shading.
Map first issued under the title "Scotland : engraved for Dr. Playfair's statistical account" by A. Constable & Co. in 1819 in Playfair's "Geographical and statistical description of Scotland".
A further re-engraving of the plate.
The first re-engraving was issued by Alexander Macredie ca. 1833, with the title "Scotland : engraved for Dr. Playfairs atlas".
New engraving shows the sea with straight lines ; this version has the addition of decorative lines in the border and sea routes and distances.
This state of the map was also issued, (with plate number) in Playfair's "New general atlas, ancient and modern ..." Revised by William Pyper and published by Alexander Macredie in1839.
Dated from the atlas.
Table of distances inside cover.
Vignette: Fingal's Cave, Staffa.
Inset, top left: The Shetland Islands.
Plate number, bottom right has been almost rubbed out from the plate but is still legible: XXIII.
Scotland divided into counties with Orkney and Western Isles.