A direction for the English traviller : by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales. And also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire, lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north, or south from ye shire towne As also the distance betweene London, and any other shire or great towne: with the situation thereof East, West, North, or South from London... [etc.]
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Type of record: Book
Title: A direction for the English traviller : by which he shal be inabled to coast about all England and Wales. And also to know how farre any market or noteable towne in any shire, lyeth one from an other, and whether the same be east, west, north, or south from ye shire towne As also the distance betweene London, and any other shire or great towne: with the situation thereof East, West, North, or South from London... [etc.]
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 26
Creator(s): Simons, Matthew (1654)
Additional creator(s): Langeren, Jacob van (Other); W. B (Other); Norden, John (1548-1625?) (Other); Kip, William (1624) (Other)
Related people: Langeren, Jacob van; W. B; Norden, John; Kip, William
Publisher: Are to be sold by Mathew Simons at the golden Lion in Ducke laine
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): ao. 1636
Language: English
Size and medium: [42] leaves, [4] folding plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/374674
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003834329705181
Description
Engraved throughout by Jacob van Langeren.
Contains county maps combined with the triangular distance tables invented by Norden. The maps are drawn on a scale of 10 miles = ¹/⁴ inch and because of this small scale have been nicknamed "Thumb-nail" maps. Rivers constitute the main feature of the maps which otherwise only show the initial letters of the place names. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 28.
The frontispiece map of England is engraved by William Kip; the other maps are copied from "Briefe descriptions shewing the contents of each particuler platt" by W.B. (STC 1072.5); the tables are copied from "England an intended guyde, for English travailers" by John Norden.
Indexed in: Chubb XLV.
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