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A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom : compiled from Parliamentary and other authentic documents and authorities, containing geographical, topographical & statistical accounts of every district, object and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the various small islands dependant on the British Empire. Accompanied by forty-seven maps, drawn purposely for this work, on an original plan, with additions and corrections, and the population tables published in 1812

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 114

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Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom : compiled from Parliamentary and other authentic documents and authorities, containing geographical, topographical & statistical accounts of every district, object and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the various small islands dependant on the British Empire. Accompanied by forty-seven maps, drawn purposely for this work, on an original plan, with additions and corrections, and the population tables published in 1812

Level: Item

Classmark: Whitaker Collection 114

Related people: Cooper, Richard

Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1813

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 v ([unpaginated, ca. 1076 p])

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298266

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003854239705181

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Maps drawn and engraved by Richard Cooper.


A re-issue of the edition of 1808 in the state without the engraver's signature on the maps. The BM copy of this date has the engraver's name on each map. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 63.


Indexed in: This edition not recorded by Chubb.

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