A direction for the English traviller by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales. And also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north, or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance betweene London, and any other shire or great towne: with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village, or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell till he come to the journies end
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Type of record: Book
Title: A direction for the English traviller by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales. And also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north, or south from ye shire towne : as also the distance betweene London, and any other shire or great towne: with the scituation thereof east, west, north, or south from London : by the help also of this worke one may know (in what parish, village, or mansion house soeuer he be in) what shires he is to passe through & which way he is to trauell till he come to the journies end
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 27
Creator(s): Simons, Matthew (1654)
Publisher: Are to be sold by Thomas Jenner
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): 1643
Language: English
Size and medium: 40 leaves, tables
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298099
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003834379705181
Description
Foliation is irregular.
Leaves 4-39 all consist of table of distance for an English county with a small map at bottom right hand corner.
Twelve of the "Thumb-nail" maps remain but all the others have been erased and replaced by entirely new maps, drawn to double the scale (10 miles = ¹/² inch). Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 28.
Indexed in: Wing(2) D1527.
Additional description
Contains a circular map of England and Wales, used as a frontispiece in the earlier editions and which has not hitherto been recorded in a copy dated 1643
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