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Author W. & A.K. Johnston Limited

Title W. & A.K. Johnston's specimen book of school wall maps & illustrations, terrestrial and celestial globes, school & scientific atlases
Published Edinburgh : W. & A.K. Johnston, [approximately 1895]

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 ADPML SPTXT  070.5793083 Waa/Wjs 1895?  LIB USE ONLY
Description 28 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Summary Full size details with prices from their range of educational wall maps and prints, atlases and globes. The varnished, cloth mounted plates and maps on rolls were ubiquitous in schools all over the English speaking world - except maybe in midwest America where home grown products had the edge.
Notes On title page: "For complete details of W. & A.K. Johnston's geographical, educational & scientific works, see their catalogue which will be sent free to any address. For excellence in geographical & educational works, the firm has already been awarded sixteen prize medals, at various exhibitions at home and abroad."
Title page illustrated with depictions of prize medals won at exhibitions from Melbourne to Bermuda between 1851 and 1892.
Each page shows sample of type of publication
Subject W. & A.K. Johnston Limited -- Catalogs.
Atlases -- Great Britain -- Advertisements.
Booksellers' catalogs -- Edinburgh (Scotland).
Genre/Form Atlases.
Catalogs.
Advertisements.
Other Titles Specimen book of school wall maps and illustrations : terrestrial and celestial globes, school and scientific atlases