Smith's new English atlas : being a complete set of county maps, divided into hundreds, on which are delineated all the direct and cross roads part of which are from actual measurement, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, gentlemen's seats, rivers, and navigable canals: preceded by a general map of England and Wales on which the principal roads are carefully described, for the purpose of facilitating the connexion of the respective maps. The whole accompanied by an index villaris, containing upwards of forty thousand names of places mentioned in the work, with reference to their situation
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Title: Smith's new English atlas : being a complete set of county maps, divided into hundreds, on which are delineated all the direct and cross roads part of which are from actual measurement, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, gentlemen's seats, rivers, and navigable canals: preceded by a general map of England and Wales on which the principal roads are carefully described, for the purpose of facilitating the connexion of the respective maps. The whole accompanied by an index villaris, containing upwards of forty thousand names of places mentioned in the work, with reference to their situation
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 105 fol
Creator(s): Smith, Charles (fl. 1803-1862)
Additional creator(s): Jones & Smith (Other)
Publisher: Printed for C. Smith
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1804
Language: English
Size and medium: [1], 54 p., 46 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299561
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004042099705181
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This was the first county atlas with the maps based on the meridian of Greenwich Observatory, though not all the maps are accurately so done. It is up to date as regards canals and turnpike roads.--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 60.
Maps dated "Jany. 6th 1801", with the exception of the S.E. sheet of Yorkshire, which is dated 1804.
Map imprints: "Jones & Smith sc."
T.p.:Tomkins scripsit. Vincent sculpsit.
Greenwich meridian.
Indexed in: Chubb CCCXI.
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