Cary's Traveller's companion, or, A delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales : shewing the immediate rout to every market and borough town throughout the kingdom. Laid down from the best authorities, on a new set of county maps, to which is added, an alphabetical list of all the market towns, with the days on which they are held
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Type of record: Book
Title: Cary's Traveller's companion, or, A delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales : shewing the immediate rout to every market and borough town throughout the kingdom. Laid down from the best authorities, on a new set of county maps, to which is added, an alphabetical list of all the market towns, with the days on which they are held
Other titles: Traveller's companion; Delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales
Classmark: Geography C-1.2/CAR
Creator(s): Cary, John (1754-1835)
Publisher: Printed for John Cary
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1790
Language: English
Size and medium: [6], 7 p., [42] p. of plates, [1] folded leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298208
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003844779705181
Description
The first edition of an exceedingly popular pocket atlas of the counties. The maps details are confined to the places on the main roads only. There were about fourteen editions and the engraved plates had twice to be renewed, in 1806 and 1822. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 57.
Indexed in: Chubb CCLXXIII.
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