Daniel Paterson (1738-1825) was commissioned in the army in 1765 and served in the Quartermaster General’s department until 1812. He made Assistant Quartermaster General for the last eight years before his retirement. He then became Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec. ‘Paterson’s Roads’ was first published in 1771 and it proved to be a popular work being published into the nineteenth century. It only contained one general map. In 1785 this rarer work was published by Carington Bowles running to only five editions. It is notable for including some of the first road maps of many parts of Scotland. This second edition of 1796 is by Bowles’ successors. In this issue there is a change of format. In this work the direct roads are all consecutive in the first volume. The cross roads are in the second volume. All plates and text pages are numbered consecutively throughout the two volumes. Provenance: private English collection. Carroll Appendix 15; DNB; Fordham ‘Paterson’s Roads’ pp. 344-55; Fordham ‘Road Books’ p. 37; Shirley BL T.Pat 1c (lacking the second volume).