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Cary's survey of the high roads from London to Hampton Court... Richmond : On a scale of one inch to a mile; wherein every gentleman's seat, situate on, or seen from the road, (however distant) are laid down, with the name of the possessor; to which is added the number of inns on each separate route; also, the different turnpike gates, shewing the connection which one trust has with another

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 255

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Title: Cary's survey of the high roads from London to Hampton Court... Richmond : On a scale of one inch to a mile; wherein every gentleman's seat, situate on, or seen from the road, (however distant) are laid down, with the name of the possessor; to which is added the number of inns on each separate route; also, the different turnpike gates, shewing the connection which one trust has with another

Other titles: Survey of the high roads from London

Level: Item

Classmark: Whitaker Collection 255

Creator(s): Cary, John (1754-1835)

Publisher: printed for J. Cary

Publication city: London

Date(s): July 1st 1790

Language: English

Size and medium: [44]leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298370

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003868669705181

Description

The first edition. It was followed by others in 1799, 1801 and 1810. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 112.


Roads are London to: Hampton Court, Bagshot, Oakingham, Binfield, Windsor, Maidenhead, High Wycombe, Amersham, Rickmansworth, Tring, St. Albans, Welwyn, Hertford, Ware, Bishops Stortford, Chipping Ongar, Chelmsford, Gravesend, Rochester, Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, East Grinsted, Ryegate, Dorking, Guildford, Richmond.


Engraved throughout.


Strips number 1-80.


Strip road maps in two strips per page.


Includes a general map of the area and a map showing the turnpike trusts.


Survey of the high roads from London.


Indexed in: ESTC T133729.

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