A NEW FORCE in Scottish publishing has been created by the merger
under the Northern Books banner of Famedram and the long established Johnston
& Bacon imprint.
The Johnston in J & B in fact goes back to a golden age of Scottish
publishing when, as W & AK Johnston, they were map makers to the empire.
In time the map business declined and was eventually swallowed up by John Bartholomew,
but Johnston and Bacon Books developed their own identity, with particular strengths
in the clans, tartans and Scottish topography.
A score of individual clan profiles support the acknowledged fount of wisdom,
Frank Adam's The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands. After
a period out of print this major clan reference work is due to re-appear in
2002.
Another indispensable reference work, The Gazetteer of Scotland, is due
to return to the shelves, with first a facsimile reprint of the rivetting original
1937 edition, followed by an authoritative, and extensively upated new edition,
taking account of the many recent changes in Scottish life.
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