Sayer’s 1789 New Map of the Roads of England and Scotland
A new tranche of the Signet Library’s map collection has been digitised and made free-to-view online as part of the WS Society’s ongoing collaboration with the National Library of Scotland’s Map Library. This new set is made up of 137 maps in two categories – maps of places beyond Scotland, and larger maps which could not be scanned without specialised equipment, bringing the total of Signet Library maps digitized under the scheme to 494.
Among the new digitisation’s are a number from the first edition of the Ordnance Survey’s one-inch-to-a-mile maps of England and Wales, some of which are not present in the national collection.
Significant examples include
Taylor’s 1816 Map of Dublin: https://maps.nls.uk/towns/rec/12525 and
Forrest’s Survey of the County of Lanarkshire: https://maps.nls.uk/counties/rec/12519