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An English atlas, or, A concise view of England and Wales : divided into counties, and its subdivisions into hundreds &c. Describing their situation, extent, boundaries, circumference, soil, product, chief rivers and the principal great and bye-roads; with a chart of the distances between the cities and chief towns. Together with a description of the situation of the most venerable antiquities whether ruins of castles, palaces, or monasteries, as well as the most remarkable houses, plantations, &c. Pointing out every delightful scene of extensive prospect, and curiosities of art and nature worthy a travellers notice. On fifty two copper plates

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 61

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Title: An English atlas, or, A concise view of England and Wales : divided into counties, and its subdivisions into hundreds &c. Describing their situation, extent, boundaries, circumference, soil, product, chief rivers and the principal great and bye-roads; with a chart of the distances between the cities and chief towns. Together with a description of the situation of the most venerable antiquities whether ruins of castles, palaces, or monasteries, as well as the most remarkable houses, plantations, &c. Pointing out every delightful scene of extensive prospect, and curiosities of art and nature worthy a travellers notice. On fifty two copper plates

Other titles: Concise view of England and Wales

Level: Item

Classmark: Whitaker Collection 61

Additional creator(s): Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784) (Other); Jefferys, Thomas (1771) (Other)

Related people: Kitchin, Thomas; Jefferys, Thomas

Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1787

Language: English

Size and medium: [64] p, [52] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298288

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003863809705181

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Contains reprints of the forty-eight county maps by Kitchin & Jefferys in The small English atlas, 1749, as revised for the edition of 1775. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 45.


Indexed in: Chubb CCLIX.

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