Curiosities of Great Britain : England & Wales delineated. Historical, entertaining & commercial. Alphabetically arranged (v.2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Curiosities of Great Britain : England & Wales delineated. Historical, entertaining & commercial. Alphabetically arranged (v.2)
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 186
Creator(s): Dugdale, Thomas
Additional creator(s): Burnett, William civil engineer (Other)
Related people: Burnett, William
Publisher: L. Tallis
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1844]
Language: English
Size and medium: 8 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298513
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003902279705181
Description
An exceedingly variable work. It first appeared in 3 volumes, vol. 1 being dated 1835, and published by Tallis & Co., Green arbour Court, Old Bailey. Vols. 2 and 3 had no date and were published, by John Tallis, 15 St. John's Lane, Smithfield, and L. Tallis 3 Jewin Street, City, respectively. It was at first illustrated by reprints of G. Cole's maps of 1810 (The British atlas). Later it appeared in 4, 8, 9 and 11 volumes, but the printed text remained uniform throughout. About 1842 the Cole maps began to be replaced by new ones, with the imprint "Drawn & engraved by J. Archer Pentonville London". Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 88.
Maps show hundreds coloured in outline. Railways have been added, often regardless of whether they were constructed, constructing, or even never likely to be constructed. Cf. Whitaker, p. 88.
Indexed in: This edition not recorded by Chubb.
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