Peter
To join in the 'Yes - we've got one too!' responses: Yes - we've got one
too! (but incomplete in some map parts as well as the accompanying textual
descriptive matter, which latter you do not mention). I have spoken today
with Bill Willett (ex-chief cartographic editor of George Philip), whom I
know was interested in this series a few years ago - but not to the extent
of having written up and/or published anything. Maybe a search of the
Library of Congress's Geography and Map Division's multi-volume
'Bibliography of the History of Cartography' (and its 2-vol. supplement)
would turn up something beyond the brief mention the SMS gets in Ken 's 'GJ'
citation?
Francis
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> Subject: Serial Map Service
>
> The MOD Map Library has recently been sent a complete set of the Serial
> Map
> Service.
>
> They started in September 1939 and continued until March 1948,
> concentrating
> at first on War related mapping and topics and then moving on to post-war
> reconstruction. The early maps were produced by George Philip and then for
> a
> short while by John Bartholomew and W&AK Johnson before being produced
> in-house from mid-1941 onwards.
>
> Does anyone know any more of the history behind these publications? Are
> they
> common as a complete set or do we have a rarity?
>
> Peter Jones
> AD Geo Libraries
> Military Survey
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