Atlas to Alison's History of Europe. / Constructed and arranged, under the direction of Mr. Alison, by Alexander Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E. F.R.G.S. F.G.S. ... With a concise vocabulary of military and marine terms.
Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-1871)
Category
Books
Date
1850
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101543
Summary
Bibliographic description
16 p., [1], 108 leaves : maps ; obl. 4to. Maps coloured in outline. Pencil note at head of map 1: "Gushing"[?]. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'James Taylor Smith' (motto: 'Vigilans'). Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf; double gilt fillet and blind roll to form an outer border; sewn onto five recessed cords; five false bands; gilt tooled spine; red and green morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Alison's Europe' and 'Atlas'; gilt rolled board edges; marbled textblock edges and endpapers; green ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-1871), cartographer Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet (1792 - 1867), editor