The Arrowsmith publishers were founded by Aaron Arrowsmith and his son John Arrowsmith’s most notable work was the ‘London Atlas of Universal Geography’. The families reputation for producing up to date and accurate charts is well known. Indeed in this same year 1854 the firm published a large twenty sheet map entitled ‘Southern Portion of the Crimea’. This is clearly a single sheet reduction issued at the same time and is according to Herbert’s detailed study state 9 of 10. It is taken as the title states ‘from surveys made by order of the Russian Government’. It bears insets of the town of Sebastopol and the Black Sea. Herbert ‘A Crimean war triptych’ in Map Forum no. 9 pp. 50-55 state 9 (of 10).