The sheet covers the south-east quadrant of Edinburgh and includes a remarkable cross-section of the city’s most famous landscape. Holyrood Park, Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags dominate the centre, beautifully rendered with detailed contours at 25-foot vertical intervals.
Contours shown in red. Provisional Edition. Revision of 1929 with additions in 1946-47. Printed 1951. Approximate size is 56 x 43 cm. Covering an area on the ground 3 miles east to west and 2 miles north to south.
Provisional Edition. Original flat map. Covering an area on the ground 3 miles east to west and 2 miles north to south, contours shown in red. Revision of 1898 with additions in 1948 (Published 1951).
The parishes ofCaerlaverock ,Ruthwell ,Mouswald ,Torthorwald andDumfries are all represented. Lochar Moss itself is historically significant as the find spot of the famous Iron Age Lochar Moss Torc (now in the British Museum) and lies just north of Caerlaverock Castle.
A real piece of Scottish landscape history from the early 1960s. This is an original 1962 published edition, not a modern reproduction. The original printed price of “7/- net” (seven shillings) is also consistent with OS pricing of the early 1960s, before decimalisation in 1971.
This is the Second Edition, published in 1900, surveyed in 1856 and revised in 1898. Their Edina Works stamp on an OS sheet is a nice provenance detail for collectors. Rationale: The map is clearly printed “SECOND EDITION, 1900” across the top of the sheet.
This is Sheet XL South-East from the County Series Second Edition, originally published in 1900 based on the 1855–56 survey revised in 1899. The map was reprinted in 1930 and 1938 as indicated by the reprint codes printed on the sheet.
Flat map, contours shown in red. Edition of 1914 (reprinted 1944). Covering an area on the ground 3 miles east to west and 2 miles north to south. Fair condition (creases, small tear on top edge, very grubby reverse).
The sheet shows the heart of Edinburgh in remarkable detail at 1:10,560 scale. This particular copy carries hand-coloured manuscript annotations in red, green and purple, concentrated around the Newington and Grange area with smaller markings on Calton Hill and in Holyrood Park.
Provisional Edition. Revision of 1898 with additions in 1947. Printed 1952. Covering an area on the ground 3 miles east to west and 2 miles north to south. Fair to good condition (creases, edge knocks).