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The large English atlas : or, A new set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales, drawn from the several surveys which have been hitherto published, with three general maps of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the latest and best authorities... Laid down on a large scale, and containing all the cities, towns, villages, and churches, whether rectories or vicarages, chapels, many noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, &c. &c. each map is illustrated with a general description of the county, its cities, borough and market towns, the number of members returned to parliament, of parishes, houses, acres of land &c. and historical extracts relative to the trade, manufactures, and government of the cities and principal towns, and the present state of the inhabitants, &c

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 69 fol.

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Title: The large English atlas : or, A new set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales, drawn from the several surveys which have been hitherto published, with three general maps of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the latest and best authorities... Laid down on a large scale, and containing all the cities, towns, villages, and churches, whether rectories or vicarages, chapels, many noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, &c. &c. each map is illustrated with a general description of the county, its cities, borough and market towns, the number of members returned to parliament, of parishes, houses, acres of land &c. and historical extracts relative to the trade, manufactures, and government of the cities and principal towns, and the present state of the inhabitants, &c

Level: Item

Classmark: Whitaker Collection 69 fol.

Creator(s): Bowen, Emanuel (1767)

Additional creator(s): Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784) (Other); Bowles, Carington (1724-1793) (Other)

Related people: Kitchin, Thomas; Bowles, Carington

Publisher: Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1767

Language: English

Size and medium: [48] plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299479

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004036509705181

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Title-page printed in red and black.


The title-page to this atlas was used long after the date it bears. The general map of England and Wales in the Brotherton Library copy is dated 1780. Some of the county maps bear the name of Robt. Wilkinson in conjunction with those of Carington Bowles and Robt. Sayer, in the imprint. Wilkinson succeeded to the business of John Bowles after the death of the latter in 1779--Wilkinson: The Harold Wilkinson Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 49.


Maps show ornate title and dedication cartouches roads, rivers and places, with notes about the county.


London meridian.


Relief shown pictorially.


Indexed in: This edition not known to Chubb.

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