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W. & A.K. Johnston's specimen book of school wall maps & illustrations, terrestrial and celestial globes, school & scientific atlases

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posted on 1895-01-01, 00:00 authored by W. & A.K. Johnston Limited
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.

History

Pagination

28 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 30 cm

Publisher

W. & A.K. Johnston

Place of publication

Edinburgh

Open access

Yes

Material type

book

Resource type

book

Language

eng

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.Original held in Deakin University Library Special Collection - Australian Schools Textbook Collection.Contact Deakin University Library for access to high quality images.

Copyright notice

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