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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 the roads from one county to another

Archive Print Item: Large Whitaker Collection 89

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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 the roads from one county to another

Other titles: New and correct English atlas; Cary's English atlas

Level: Item

Classmark: Large Whitaker Collection 89

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

Publisher: Printed for John Cary

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1818

Language: English

Size and medium: 14, 12 p., [45] leaves, [46] plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299178

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003988969705181

Description

Th dates are removed from the maps and the imprints closed up--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 56.


"Corrected to 1818": title-page.


Each colour map accompanied by leaf of letterpress.


London or Greenwich meridians.


Relief shown by hachures.


Descriptions of the counties include lists of seats and views.


Includes lists of market and borough towns, with market days and distances from London, and principal post and sub-post towns with their receiving houses and times of arrival and departure.


Spine title: Cary's English atlas.


Indexed in: Chubb CCLXVI.

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