The tourist and traveller's guide to the roads of England and Wales, and part of Scotland : on an entirely new plan, whereby the different lines of route leading to any required point of distance are brought under notice at one reference, and the variations shewn in the margin; the great roads, each distinctly given, in a continuous line, from one extreme point to another, and the cross roads so arranged that the route from any one part of the kingdom to another may be traced with the greatest facility: with a very copious general index, and separate local indices to the principal towns and watering places: forming, altogether, a comprehensive, useful, and perspicuous itinerary
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Type of record: Book
Title: The tourist and traveller's guide to the roads of England and Wales, and part of Scotland : on an entirely new plan, whereby the different lines of route leading to any required point of distance are brought under notice at one reference, and the variations shewn in the margin; the great roads, each distinctly given, in a continuous line, from one extreme point to another, and the cross roads so arranged that the route from any one part of the kingdom to another may be traced with the greatest facility: with a very copious general index, and separate local indices to the principal towns and watering places: forming, altogether, a comprehensive, useful, and perspicuous itinerary
Other titles: Gray's book of roads; Gray's new book of roads
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 136
Creator(s): Gray, George Carrington
Publisher: Sherwood, Jones, and Co
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1824
Language: English
Size and medium: v,[vi-viii],86,[70, 28]p., 49 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298275
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003854979705181
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Added t.p., with title vignette: Gray's book of roads. On an entirely new plan.
At head of title: Gray's new book of Roads.
Verso t.p.: "This work may be bound up either with or without a set of maps forming a complete county atlas". When supplied with maps, they were reprints of those in Cooke's Topography of Great Britain, with plate numbers added.
Maps bound in between tables of cross roads and index, except the general map of England and Wales which appears before the title page.
Longitude and latitude shown either from Greenwich or London meridians.
Added t.p. title: Gray's book of roads.
Indexed in: Chubb CCCXCII.
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