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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.]

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 258

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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

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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

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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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