Curiosities of Great Britain : England & Wales delineated. Historical, entertaining & commercial. Alphabetically arranged (v.3)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Curiosities of Great Britain : England & Wales delineated. Historical, entertaining & commercial. Alphabetically arranged (v.3)
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 187
Creator(s): Dugdale, Thomas
Additional creator(s): Burnett, William civil engineer (Other); Townsend, Leonard (Other)
Related people: Burnett, William; Townsend, Leonard
Publisher: L. Tallis
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1846]
Language: English
Size and medium: 9 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298527
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003902989705181
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.
Many of the unlikely railways shown on the maps of the [1844] edition have been erased, and others, often equally unlikely, engraved in their stead. Cf. Whitaker, p. 88.
Vol. 9 is a supplement, with title: An alphabetical chronology of remarkable events, with copious explanatory notes, by Leonard Townsend.
Indexed in: This edition not recorded by Chubb.
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