lithographed map printed in black and red, old folds with some attendant minor creasing and occasional very faint browning, folding into a contemporary printed buff envelope, some soiling, bearing a faint ink stamp of the Justiciary Office, issued for the Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory,
Bartholomew (John) F.R.G.S.
Post Office Plan of Edinburgh and Leith,
£150
, John Bartholomew & Son, Ltd., 1937.
a large-scale wall map on a scale of 6 inches to a mile, detailing every street and building in Edinburgh and Leith, with topographical features, the boundaries of postal districts highlighted in red, extending from the Firth of Forth south to Gilmerton, and from Corstorphine west to Joppa and New Graighall, with ‘Map Showing the Full Extent of the City of Edinburgh’ inset in the upper right corner..
980 by 1250mm (38½ by 49¼ inches).


