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Cary's New and correct English atlas : being a new set of county maps from actual surveys. Exhibiting all the direct & principal cross roads, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, rivers, navigable canals &c. Preceded by a general map of South Britain. Shewing the connexion of one map with another. Also a general description of each county. And directions for the junction of roads from one county to another

Archive Print Item: Large Whitaker Collection 86

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Type of record: Book

Title: Cary's New and correct English atlas : being a new set of county maps from actual surveys. Exhibiting all the direct & principal cross roads, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, rivers, navigable canals &c. Preceded by a general map of South Britain. Shewing the connexion of one map with another. Also a general description of each county. And directions for the junction of roads from one county to another

Other titles: New and correct English atlas

Level: Item

Classmark: Large Whitaker Collection 86

Creator(s): Cary, John (1754-1835)

Publisher: Printed for John Cary, engraver & map-seller, no. 181, near Norfolk Street, Strand. Published as the Act directs

Publication city: London

Date(s): Jany. 1st. 1793

Language: English

Size and medium: [2] l., 47 maps, 45 l, 17 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299177

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003988919705181

Description

This seems to be a fairly standard copy of the second edition, as it was being issued from 1793 to about 1808--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 55.


Each map accompanied by a sheet or sheets of text.


Includes "The market and borough towns in England and Wales, with the days on which their markets are held, and their distances from London"; and "A list of the principal post and sub-post towns, with their receiving houses, in England and Wales; with the price of postage, and the time of arrival from, and departure to, London".


Includes indexes.


Indexed in: Chubb CCLXIII.

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