Description
Southampton: Ordnance Map Office & Lt. Col. H. James, [1853-1855]. Elephant folio, with index sheet, double page maps showing battle sites, another view of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth, with 24 (of 25) sheets (sheet 21, mostly blank, lacking; sheets 8, 17, 20 & 24 each lacking one half which is usually blank); [bound with] Kerr, R.E. Ordnance Plan of the Parishes of Dalmeny and Cramond. Southampton: The Ordnance Map Office, 1856. Comprising a selection of 12 double-page hand-coloured sheets from the map; impressive brown morocco gilt by Wiseman with a gilt acanthus border and the arms of Trinity College Cambridge to the upper cover, and a scallop shell and cross border overlaying the acanthus motif border on the lower cover, with scallop shell motifs and arms depicting scallop shells within a St Andrews cross to the lower cover
Footnote
Provenance: Given to A. Pringle of Trinity College Cambridge in 1858 as a Latin declamation prize