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Friday, January 23, 2009

The Bartholomew Archive - Mapmaking and printing from 1820 to 2002

The Bartholomew Archive - Mapmaking and printing from 1820 to 2002"The Bartholomew Archive is the remarkable record of the Edinburgh-based firm of map engravers, printers and publishers, John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. It is one of the most extensive cartographic archives available for research in a public institution. Members of the Bartholomew family were engaged in map-making from the first known map engraving work of George Bartholomew in 1825. John Bartholomew junior started printing operations before 1870. For more than a century afterwards the Bartholomew firm specialised in high-quality map production"

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