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Delivered from the printers to a day’s meeting of The Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey maps [www.charlesclosesociety.org], held in the National Library of Scotland’s Map Library, Edinburgh, Saturday 12 September 2009:- One-inch engraved maps of the Ordnance Survey from 1847 / Roger Hellyer and Richard Oliver. – London : The Charles Close Society, 2009. – vi,714p. : ill., maps ; 31 cm. – Cartobibliography is arranged sequentially by England & Wales (sheets 1-360), Scotland (sheets 1-131), and Ireland (sheets 1-205), plus ‘District maps’: p.118-698. – Includes locations of copies – including facsimiles - in 69 collections (public/private) in British Isles, Canada, Denmark, France, and USA. - Bibliogr. (“of principal published sources”): p.707-708. – Includes ‘Chronology’ (from 1805-1999): p.704-706. - ISBN 978-1-870598-279 A ‘weighty tome’ in more than one sense . . . For further details of published price - £50 - see CCS website. Francis Herbert (founder member, CCS; and purchaser of this valuable vade mecum) [log in to unmask]