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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 and 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

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 113

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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 and 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

Level: Item

Classmark: Whitaker Collection 113

Related people: Cooper, Richard

Publisher: printed for Richard Phillips

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1808

Language: English

Size and medium: [unpaginated]: xiv,[ca. 1076]p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298270

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003854559705181

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The title-page records the accompaniment by 47 maps, which is not the case. The maps are as in another issue, also published in 1808, except that the engraver's name, Cooper, does not appear. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 62.


Indexed in: This state not recorded by Chubb.

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