Whittle and Laurie's new traveller's companion : exhibiting a complete and correct survey of all the direct and principal cross roads in England, Wales, and Scotland: as far north as Edinburgh and Glasgow: together with the roads to Perth and Aberdeen, Greenock, Irvine, Ayr, Port-Patrick, Wigton, &c. Accompanied by a new general map, which exhibits the whole at one view; and an index villaris... [etc.]
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Title: Whittle and Laurie's new traveller's companion : exhibiting a complete and correct survey of all the direct and principal cross roads in England, Wales, and Scotland: as far north as Edinburgh and Glasgow: together with the roads to Perth and Aberdeen, Greenock, Irvine, Ayr, Port-Patrick, Wigton, &c. Accompanied by a new general map, which exhibits the whole at one view; and an index villaris... [etc.]
Other titles: New traveller's companion
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 258
Creator(s): Whittle, James
Additional creator(s): Laurie, Richard Holmes (1755?-1836) (Other)
Related people: Laurie, Richard Holmes
Publisher: printed (by Rider and Weed...) for James Whittle and Richard Holmes Laurie
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1813
Language: English
Size and medium: [12] p; 25 col. maps
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298604
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003913559705181
Description
Contains 25 sectional maps covering the main routes from London and many cross routes. The county outlines seem fairly accurate, but the roads are all show straight between town and town. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 113.
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