Leigh's new pocket road-book of England & Wales : containing an account of all the direct and cross roads; together with a description of every remarkable place, its curiousities, manufactures, commerce, population, and principal inns; to which are added pleasure tours to the most picturesque parts of the country. The whole forming a complete guide to every object worthy the attention of travellers
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Type of record: Book
Title: Leigh's new pocket road-book of England & Wales : containing an account of all the direct and cross roads; together with a description of every remarkable place, its curiousities, manufactures, commerce, population, and principal inns; to which are added pleasure tours to the most picturesque parts of the country. The whole forming a complete guide to every object worthy the attention of travellers
Other titles: Leigh's new atlas of England & Wales
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 129
Creator(s): Leigh, Samuel
Additional creator(s): Hall, Sidney (fl.1817-1860) (Other)
Related people: Hall, Sidney
Publisher: Printed for Samuel Leigh
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1831
Language: English
Size and medium: [2] p., 55 leaves, 486 p., [1 folded plate]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/374683
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003854719705181
Description
Engraved added title page depicts woman and globe.
Maps are engraved by Sidney Hall. They were previously issued in Leigh's new pocket atlas of England and Wales, and are now uncoloured but otherwise unchanged. The edition statement refers to the Road-book itself. It is the fourth edition of Leigh's atlas. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 69.
Engraved "Table of the price of posting shewing the charges usually made for a pair of horses" opposite title page.
Added t.p. title: Leigh's new atlas of England & Wales.
Includes index.
Indexed in: Chubb CCCLXXVI.
Additional description
The Pocket road-book is listed as Whitaker Collection 262
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