Taylor & Skinner's SURVEY and MAPS of the ROADS of North Britain OR SCOTLAND
Subtitle: TO His Grace JOHN Duke of ARGYLL, Commander in Chief of His Majestys Forces in NORTH BRITAIN, &c. &c. &c. This WORK is most Humbly Inscribed by His Grace's most Obliged & very humble Servants
By: George Taylor Andrew Skinner
Contributors: Skinner, Andrew (Geographer), surveyor; Pyle, Stephen, printmaker; Barber, John, active 1775-1794, printmaker; Prockter, James, active 1760-1783, printmaker; Bowen, Thomas, -1790, printmaker; Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807, printmaker; Terry, Garnet, printmaker; Roberts, John, -1796, printmaker; Luffman, J. (John), 1756-1846, printmaker; Flyn, J., active 1761-1782, printmaker; Wilson, D., -1777, bookseller; Nicol, G. (George), 1740?-1828, bookseller; Phillips, James (Bookseller), bookseller; Dury, Andrew, bookseller; Durham, Thomas (Bookseller), bookseller; Argyll, John Campbell, Duke of, 1723-1806, dedicatee
Publisher: Publish'd for the Authors as the Act directs the 20.th March, 1776, & Sold by D. Wilson & G. Nicol, Strand, Ja.s Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street, And.w Dury, Dukes Court, S.t Martins Lane, & & T. Durham, Cockspur Street. & by all the Booksellers in Scotland. Price 12 Shillings
Published: 1776
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Roads; Atlases; Early works to 1800
Notes: Titlepage shows blazon of Duke of Argyll engraved by Luffman - "Luffman Sc. Newgate Str.t."

Titlepage shows "Scale of British Statute Miles" (scale approximately 1:72,000).

1 folio (2 pages - unnumbered) follows the titlepage and shows "A LIST of the STAGES on the GREAT ROAD", "An INDEX of all the Cities, Towns, and Villages on the Great Road, shewing the Distance from EDINBURGH, and the Pages on which the Roads are to be found" and "An INDEX of the CROSS ROADS. The First Column shews the Distance of one stage from another, in Miles and Furlongs; the Second Column shews the Distance from the Towns the Roads are measured."

Maps comprise one folding map of Scotland (with blank verso) and 62 ribbon-style or "strip" road maps, printed both sides of the page (thus none of the ribbon-style maps have a blank verso). The folio with plate 3 to recto and plate 4 to verso appears twice (erroneously). Plate 9 is printed again in place of plate 47, which is lacking (erroneous). Each map is catalogued separately by the British Library.

Engravers names shown on the maps within the atlas are Stephen Pyle, John Barber, Thomas Bowen, James Prockter, Garnet Terry, John Roberts, Isaac Taylor, John Luffman and J. Flyn.

Compare Add. MS. 7712 held by the University Library, Cambridge - a manuscript roadbook by George Taylor (see Fairclough, R.H. 'Sketches of the roads in Scotland, 1785'; the manuscript roadbook of George Taylor in "Imago Mundi", 27).

Rare Book copy: Original binding of limp calf designed to be folder in half for travelling by horse

Rare Book copy: From the library of Robert Reid Cunninghame of Auchenharvie, with his armorial bookplate and autograph

Adams, Dr. I.H. George Taylor, a Surveyor o' Pairts in "Imago Mundi", 27, Volume 27, pages 55-64

Moir, D.G. The early maps of Scotland to 1850, Volume II, page 30

Shirley, Rodney. Maps in the atlases of the British Library, c. AD 850-1800, T. TAYL-1a, page 992