Bartholomew Printing Record Catalogue Search

The National Library of Scotland (NLS) project to document the records of Bartholomew map makers now allows online searching of some of the vast archive of materials.


The form searches the catalogue of the Bartholomew Archive Printing Record which contains a copy of everything the firm printed between 1877 and 2002. Each item is annotated with the date of printing and number of copies made. Cataloguing is ongoing, to date 12,000 records spanning the period 1877 to 1906 can be searched.

“So, if you have a Bartholomew map which you would like to date, if you are curious to know which other publishers John Bartholomew & Co. produced maps for, if you would like to know which item first bore John George Bartholomew's name or, if you are looking for a map of Turkey as a present for your granny then this new interface is just what you have been looking for!” – Karla Baker, archivist and cataloguer.

Bartholomew News post on the Bartholomews Archive Blog has further details.
Printing Record catalogue search form
The Bartholomew Archive at the National Library of Scotland