Bowles's new medium English atlas : or, Complete set of maps of the counties of England and Wales: divided into their respective hundreds, wapontakes, wards, rapes, lathes &c. exhibiting the roads, rivers, cities; borough, market, and sea-port towns; principal villages and places of note; with their distances from London, and members sent to parliament; also church-livings, seats of the nobility, and a variety of historical extracts relative to the natural produce, trade, manufactures and commerce. Compiled and laid down from the latest authorities
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Type of record: Book
Title: Bowles's new medium English atlas : or, Complete set of maps of the counties of England and Wales: divided into their respective hundreds, wapontakes, wards, rapes, lathes &c. exhibiting the roads, rivers, cities; borough, market, and sea-port towns; principal villages and places of note; with their distances from London, and members sent to parliament; also church-livings, seats of the nobility, and a variety of historical extracts relative to the natural produce, trade, manufactures and commerce. Compiled and laid down from the latest authorities
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 76
Additional creator(s): Bowles, Carington (1724-1793) (Other)
Related people: Bowles, Carington
Publisher: Printed for the proprietor Carington Bowles
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1785
Language: English
Size and medium: 44 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298205
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003844669705181
Description
Maps previously published as Atlas Anglicanus... by the late Emanuel Bowen, [1767]. All the foliated cartouches with the original titles of the maps have been erased, and new titles re-engraved on circular or oval panels, all of which begin 'Bowles's New Medium Map of' and end with the imprint. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection ... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 51.
London meridian.
Relief shown pictorially.
At the bottom of each map: "Published as the Act directs 3 Jan. 1785".
Title page includes list of maps.
Maps contain notes about places.
Indexed in: Chubb CCLV.
Additional description
Bookplate of Thomas Tyndall Junr. and John E. Pritchard pasted inside front cover
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