Ainslie's Environs of Edinburgh Binding_contemporary pigskin by purchasing from the Metropolitan

by purchasing from the Metropolitan Railway Country Estates

Portman House

both with Demidoff’s route marked in red (one general map bound in at the end

Bound in handsome contemporary panelled calf

other exponents include John Cary and John Pinkerton

Ainslie's Environs of Edinburgh Binding_contemporary pigskin by purchasing from the MetropolitanThis map of the environs of Edinburgh was published a decade before Ainslies landmark nine sheet map of Scotland. Originally published in 1778, the term environs was substituted for country round in 1779. The last digit (only) of the date has been burnished from the plate, suggesting that our example was issued after the change in title but before the number 9 was added. The map is dedicated to the right honourable James Stewart Mackenzie (1718 1800),