Historic map of Scotland and the North of England

• Reference:GB 249 T-GED/22/1/British Isles/Scotland/383
• Dates of Creation:1796
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 map: colour, water colour on black and white print, engraving; 32.8 x 37.5 cm on 61.3 x 47.9 cm sheet (folded backwards along margins of image)

• Scope and Content

  Cover information: 'An Historical Map of Scotland, with the north part of England, adapted to the year 1400; and constructed from the most authentic materials attainable'
  'by David Macpherson' added in MS in ink.
  'Published as the Act direct, 2d July 1796, by David Macpherson, Spring-Place, Kentishtown, near London'
  'T. Foot sculp.'
  Author: T[ ] Foot after David Macpherson.
  Scale: 6 inches to 100 Scottish miles
  634' endorsed in MS in pencil in bottom right corner.
  From David Macpherson, Geographical Illustration of Scottish History, containing the Names of Places mentioned in Chronicles, Histories, Records, &c [...] the Names being alphabetically arranged, with References to their Position in the Historical Map of Scotland, which accompanies the work [...] (London: Printed by T. Besnley, 1796).

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