Roads of North-Britain, or Scotland

George Taylor and Andrew Skinner’s Roads of North-Britain is Scotland’s great eighteenth-century road atlas and the principa...

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George Taylor and Andrew Skinner’s Roads of North-Britain is Scotland’s great eighteenth-century road atlas and the principal Scottish counterpart to Ogilby’s strip-map tradition. Designed as a working traveller’s guide rather than a desk atlas, its 61 engraved strip maps trace over 3,000 miles of roads, presenting journeys stage by stage with towns, inns, tolls, estates, landowners, rivers, landmarks, junctions and distances for practical navigation. Issued in a rare wallet-style limp binding, the maps could be rolled and carried in a saddlebag, coach pocket or travelling case for consultation en route. Far scarcer than comparable English and Welsh road books, and highly desirable to collectors, these maps capture Enlightenment Scotland after military road-building and before the railway age, when improving roads reshaped commerce, administration, tourism, identity and regional connection.

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George Taylor and Andrew Skinner’s Roads of North-Britain is Scotland’s great eighteenth-century road atlas and the principal Scottish counterpart to Ogilby’s strip-map tradition. Designed as a working traveller’s guide rather than a desk atlas, its 61 engraved strip maps trace over 3,000 miles of roads, presenting journeys stage by stage with towns, inns, tolls, estates, landowners, rivers, landmarks, junctions and distances for practical navigation. Issued in a rare wallet-style limp binding, the maps could be rolled and carried in a saddlebag, coach pocket or travelling case for consultation en route. Far scarcer than comparable English and Welsh road books, and highly desirable to collectors, these maps capture Enlightenment Scotland after military road-building and before the railway age, when improving roads reshaped commerce, administration, tourism, identity and regional connection.

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