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.
Newman, S.W.T.,former owner.
John Thomson and Co.
Baldwin & Cradock.
W. & A.K. Johnston Limited.
Edinburgh : John Thomson & Co.,
1832 [ie. ca. 1840]
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 ...
Although title page is dated 1832, this atlas includes some plates issued by W. & A.K. Johnston and so was collated after 1838 when they acquired the plates for the atlas.
Maps catalogued separately.
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.
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,
Armorial bookplate  of William Ralston Patrick of Roughwood on front pastedown ; pencil inscription "STM Newman ...1848".
Atlases, Scottish.