Prospectus of a new atlas to consist of 56 maps
Publisher: John Thomson; J. Pillans & sons, printers, Edinburgh)
Published: 1813
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Subjects: John Thomson and Co; John Murray (Firm)
Notes: An advertisement from an unidentified publication.

Caption title.

Written by John Thomson?

Printer from colophon.

"To be published by John Thomson Jun. & Co. Hunter's Square, Edinburgh; John Murray, 50 Albemarle Street, and Robert Baldwin, London."--page 2.

"A New general atlas" seems to have been published in 1817 (and updated 1821 and 1829), by John Thompson & Co., Edinburgh, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, and John Cumming, Dublin, with some maps having been issued earlier.

The 56 maps referred to in the title are listed on page 2.

Each v. has armorial bookplate, and coat of arms on inserted leaf, of Sheffield Grace Esq. L.L.D, S.S.A.

Clipped from an unidentified publication; bound as no. 115 in v.4 of a 7-volume set of early 19th-century publisher's catalogs and prospectuses with binder's title "Bibliographical notices".

Each v. bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards.