£200 John Rapkin
1851
Ref: 6031.11
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26x36 cm
SCOTLAND.
Drawn and engraved on steel by John Rapkin, this series of finely engraved maps were first published in parts from the end of the 1840's and issued as a complete volume, The Illustrated Atlas in 1851. The work was re-issued a number of times until about 1865 and the maps were then used by Montgomery Martin, the author of the text in the Illustrated Atlas, in his British Colonies from 1854. The final appearance of the maps, with vignettes erased from the plate, was in geographical dictionaries and encyclopaedias until about 1880.
Vignettes of Edinburgh, Deer Stalking, Shinty, Brig of Doon, Scott's Monument and Holyrood House with inset plan of The Shetland Isles.
Slight scuff to paper at Scott's Monument vignette but a good example with good margins from the Illustrated Atlas of 1851 in original outline colour, without centrefold and including separate page of typeset text description of Scotland.
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