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Laurie and Whittle'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 257

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Title: Laurie and Whittle'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 257

Creator(s): Laurie, Robert

Additional creator(s): Whittle, James (Other)

Related people: Whittle, James

Publisher: printed by Rider and Weed... for Robert Laurie and James Whittle

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1811

Language: English

Size and medium: [12] p; 25 col. maps

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298677

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003924779705181

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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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