English Atlas Being a Complete Set of County Maps, Divided into Hundreds on which are delineated all the Direct and Cross Roads Part of which are from actual Measurement. Cities, Towns and most considerable Villages, Parks, Gentlemen?s Seats, Rivers and Navigable Canals: Preceded by a General Map of England and Wales on which the principle Roads are carefully described, for the purpose of facilitating the connexion of the respective Maps. The whole accompanied by an Index Villaris, containing upwards of Forty Thousand Names of Places mentioned in the work, with reference to their Situation.

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Published by Printed for C.Smith, Mapseller. London 1804

About this Item

Large folio. Rebound in Quarter brown leather with decorative tooling spine & raised bands, Unsigned but by Frank Brown, bookbinder of Dorchester, Dorset. New Yellow endpapers. Binding in FINE condition. Inside title page a bit darkened & lightly marked. A number of map edges & corners have been professionally repaired, only effecting margins. One map (Worcester) has small browned hole lower right corner of map. Else generally clean & tight. Size 21.5 x 15.5 inches 42 Maps on 46 Sheets, Original Colouring, Engraved title page, List of contents and 26 sheets of Index to places & list of Subscribers, printed on both sides. Hand coloured Atlas of England and Wales with surprisingly modern looking maps. A good example of the first edition of this atlas of large-scale, detailed county maps of England and Wales. Yorkshire is on four sheets and Wales is shown on two. With index and subscribers list. In spite of outward appearance the maps are clean and clear. Maps Bedfordshire, berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Durham, Essex, Glocestershire, Hampshire, Herfordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutlandshire, Shropshire, Somersetshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmoreland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire on 4 sheets, Wales shown on two maps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: English Atlas Being a Complete Set of County Maps, Divided into Hundreds on which are delineated all the Direct and Cross Roads Part of which are from actual Measurement. Cities, Towns and most considerable Villages, Parks, Gentlemen?s Seats, Rivers and Navigable Canals: Preceded by a General Map of England and Wales on which the principle Roads are carefully described, for the purpose of facilitating the connexion of the respective Maps. The whole accompanied by an Index Villaris, containing ...
• Publisher: Printed for C.Smith, Mapseller. London 1804
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