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New British atlas : being a complete set of county maps, on which are delineated all the roads, cities, towns, villages, rivers & canals; together with correct general maps of England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland

Archive Print Item: Folio Geography C-1/NEW

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Type of record: Book

Title: New British atlas : being a complete set of county maps, on which are delineated all the roads, cities, towns, villages, rivers & canals; together with correct general maps of England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland

Level: Item

Classmark: Folio Geography C-1/NEW

Additional creator(s): Cary, John (1754-1835) (Other); Noble, E (Other); Stockdale, John (1749?-1814) (Other)

Publisher: Printed for John Stockdale

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1805

Language: English

Size and medium: [52] leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299563

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004042129705181

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This atlas is made up of the maps (drawn by E. Noble and engraved by J. Cary) originally used to illustrate the first edition of Gough's Camden's Britannia of 1789; now considerably revised for use in the second edition of his Britannia of 1806. The maps in the Brotherton Library copy are actually printed on paper watermarked 1808, and one county map, Surrey, shows the "Iron Railway" from Wandsworth via Croydon and Merstham to Reigate and Godstone, which had not been shown on the map of Surrey in the early issues of this atlas, or even in the early issues of the Britannia of 1806.--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 61.


London meridian.


Relief shown by hachures.


Indexed in: Chubb CCCXIX.

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