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Leigh's new pocket road-book of England and Wales, containing an account of all the direct, cross and post roads; a description of every principal town and remarkable place; with the curiosities, manufactures, commerce, population, and principal inns, &c.; to which are added pleasure tours to the most picturesque parts of the country; with a new and correct list of mail coach routes

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 131

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Type of record: Book

Title: Leigh's new pocket road-book of England and Wales, containing an account of all the direct, cross and post roads; a description of every principal town and remarkable place; with the curiosities, manufactures, commerce, population, and principal inns, &c.; to which are added pleasure tours to the most picturesque parts of the country; with a new and correct list of mail coach routes

Other titles: New pocket road-book of England and Wales; Leigh's new atlas of England and Wales; New atlas of England and Wales

Level: Item

Classmark: Whitaker Collection 131

Additional creator(s): Leigh, Samuel (Other); Hall, Sidney (fl.1817-1860) (Other)

Related people: Leigh, Samuel; Hall, Sidney

Publisher: printed for the proprietors. Sold by G. Biggs. Orlando Hodgson

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1843

Language: English

Size and medium: vii, [1], 540 p, [1] folded leaf of plates; 55 maps

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/374693

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003918339705181

Description

Maps have special engraved t.p.: Leigh's new atlas of England and Wales.


Maps engraved by Sidney Hall, and revised as regards railways.


Includes index.


Indexed in: Not recorded by Chubb.

Additional description

The Pocket road-book is listed as Whitaker Collection 265

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