The atlas of Scotland : containing maps of each county, on a scale so large as to exhibit the features of the country, and places of importance; the boundaries of the shires, attested with respectable names to verify their accuracy, laid down from actual survey, or compiled from plans of recent date, so as to form a complete body of topographical information at the date of publication; accompanied with a memoir of the geography of Scotland, view of the comparative length of the rivers, height of the mountains, and a consulting index, to facilitate the finding out of places, &c.
Johnson, William,active 1806-1840.engraver
Cumming, John.
Reid, William Robert,1854-1919,former owner.
John Thomson and Co.
Baldwin & Cradock.
Edinburgh : John Thomson & Co.,
1832.
Relief shown by hachures.
Full imprint on title page : Edinburgh: printed for John Thomson & Co., Edinburgh ; Baldwin & Cradock, London ; and John Cumming, Dublin.
Dedication : to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hopetoun ...
Maps date between 1820 and 1830 ; they were also sold loose.
Maps catalogued separately.
The printing plates were subsequently bought and used by W. & A.K. Johnston after 1838.
Plates engraved by a variety of Edinburgh and London engravers ; many maps drawn by William Johnson.
Most maps have hand coloured boundaries, a few later ones, and the comparative charts are fully hand coloured.
Different copies have slight variations in colouring, e.g. shaded rather than coloured lines.
Plates folded and mounted on guards.
Some maps with inset town plans, and pictures and vignettes of local significant buildings
Includes index.
Maps have alphabetic grids for use with index.
Title page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Comparative view of the heights of mountains -- Comparative view of lengths of principal rivers -- Index map - - 29 maps of counties (some on multiple sheets) -- Consulting index.
EMS,
Chubb,
Bookplate of William Robert Reid, Lauriston Castle, 1915 on front pastedown ; pencil inscription "To W. Reid on his birthday 1914 from John A. Fairley" .
Atlases, Scottish.