Map Collection

Bacon 1907
FA2000.20:- 
Atlas, Bacon's Library Atlas of the British Isles, edited by G W Bacon, published by G W Bacon and Co, London, 1907.
The atlas has a maps of - Europe, British Isles, England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland at various scales; geographical descriptions and gazetteers; separate maps for the english counties - Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, Wiltshire; a series of town maps - Bath, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Belfast, Cork, Cardiff and Newport, Chatham, Cheltenham, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hastings, Hull, Killarney, Londonderry, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Cambridge, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Reading, Sheffield, Southampton, York; geological map of England; map of the World, and of colonies in - Africa, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand; flags of nations; etc.
This copy of the atlas belonged to Froyle Church of England Primary School, Froyle, Hampshire.
County maps are documented separately.
inscription:-  printed -on- title page BACON'S / LIBRARY ATLAS / OF THE / BRITISH ISLES / REVISED ACCORDING TO THE LATEST ORDNANCE SURVEY / CONTAINING / 124 DOUBLE-PAGE MAPS AND PLANS, / COLONIAL SUPPLEMENT, / INDEX-GAZETTEER AND HISTORICAL DESCRIPTIONS, / TABLES OF POPULATIONS, &c. / EDITED BY / G. W. BACON, F.R.G.S. / LONDON: G. W. BACON & CO., LIMITED. 127, STRAND. / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. / 1907.
inscription:-  -on- cover BACON'S / ATLAS / OF THE / BRITISH ISLES
dimension:-  wxh = 27.5x35.5cm

  Map Group -- Bacon 1907

MN: 17.7.2000