W. & A. K. Johnston
Cartographical publishers. Founded by the brothers William and Alexander Keith Johnston in Edinburgh in 1825. Important works included the National atlas (1843), and the Physical atlas (1848), which illustrated the geology, hydrography, meteorology, botany, zoology, and ethnology of the world. Produced pictorial material for schools from the 1870s, including Johnston’s school astronomical atlas (1877).
Sources
One hundred years of map making: the story of W. & A. K. Johnston (Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, [1923])
ODNB s.v. Johnston, (Alexander) Keith, the elder
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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