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The small British atlas : being a new set of maps of all the counties of England and Wales: to which is added, a general map, with tables of length, breadth, area, cities, boroughs and parishes in each county. Likewise a parliamentary map of England, with tables of the produce of the land-tax; also a scheme of the proportion the several counties paid to the Three shilling aid, 1699, compared with the number of members they send to Parliament

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 65

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Type of record: Book

Title: The small British atlas : being a new set of maps of all the counties of England and Wales: to which is added, a general map, with tables of length, breadth, area, cities, boroughs and parishes in each county. Likewise a parliamentary map of England, with tables of the produce of the land-tax; also a scheme of the proportion the several counties paid to the Three shilling aid, 1699, compared with the number of members they send to Parliament

Other titles: Le petit atlas Britannique

Level: Item

Classmark: Whitaker Collection 65

Creator(s): Rocque, John (1762)

Additional creator(s): Sayer, Robert (1725-1794) (Other)

Related people: Sayer, Robert

Publisher: John Rocque and Robert Sayer

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1753

Language: English

Size and medium: [2] l., 54 fold. maps

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298289

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003863849705181

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Added t.-p. in French: Le petit atlas Britannique: ou recueil des provinces d'Angleterre et de la principaute de Galles... [etc.].


"Published according to Act of Parliament 1753".


The maps had previously been issued in The English traveller, 1746. Excessive shading around the county boundaries gives the counties the appearance of islands.--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 48.


Indexed in: Chubb CCVII.

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