Samuel Lewis issued this monumental map to accompany his Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, first published in 1846. At a scale of five miles to the inch the map is superbly detailed, giving information on cities, market towns, parishes, villages, gentleman’s seats, kirks, parks, mail roads, turnpike and other roads, rivers, lakes, canals, railways, mountains and hills, and county boundaries.

Samuel Lewis (1782-1865), was a prominent publisher and cartographer, working in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He is best known for his topographical dictionaries, which aimed to give in “a condensed form”, a faithful and impartial description of each place. The first dictionary was published in 1831 and delt with England; he would subsequently publish dictionaries on Wales (1833); Ireland (1837); and Scotland (1846).

Scale: 5 statute miles to 1 inch.