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Lewis's new traveller's guide : or a pocket edition of the English counties, containing all the direct & cross roads in England & Wales. With the distance of each principal place from London
Lewis, William
[1819]
Maps originally issued by Wallis in 1810, after which they appeared in Martin's Sportsman's Almanack. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 67. Engraved t.p. shows...
Lewis's new traveller's guide : or a pocket edition of the English counties, containing all the direct & cross roads in England & Wales. With the distance of each principal place from London
Lewis, William
[1819]
Engraved t.p. shows coach and four horses. Preface dated Oct. 16. 1819. Maps originally issued by Wallis in 1810, after which they appeared in Martin's Sportsman's Almanack. 23 of the county maps ...
Bowles's new medium English atlas : or, Complete set of maps of the counties of England and Wales: divided into their respective hundreds, wapontakes, wards, rapes, lathes &c. exhibiting the roads, rivers, cities; borough, market, and sea-port towns; principal villages and places of note; with their distances from London, and members sent to parliament; also church-livings, seats of the nobility, and a variety of historical extracts relative to the natural produce, trade, manufactures and commerce. Compiled and laid down from the latest authorities
Bowles, Carington (1724-1793)
1785
Maps previously published as Atlas Anglicanus... by the late Emanuel Bowen, [1767]. All the foliated cartouches with the original titles of the maps have been erased, and new titles re-engraved on cir...
Pigot and Co's national commercial directory : comprising a directory and classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders... in the counties of Derby, Hereford, Leicester, Lincoln, Monmouth, Nottingham, Rutland, Salop, Stafford, Warwick, Worcester; and also of those in North and South Wales: with historical and descriptive sketches of each county, town & village
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Pigot and Company
1835
Includes advertisements at end of directory. Includes index. No maps [in Bedford Collection copy A041]. Maps issued separately as atlas.
Pigot and Co's national commercial directory : comprising a directory and classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders... in the counties of Derby, Hereford, Leicester, Lincoln, Monmouth, Nottingham, Rutland, Salop, Stafford, Warwick, Worcester; and also of those in North and South Wales: with historical and descriptive sketches of each county, town & village (Monmouthshire only)
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Pigot and Company
1835
Includes advertisements at end of directory. Includes index. No maps [in Bedford Collection copy A041]. Maps issued separately as atlas.
Robson's commercial directory of London and the Western Counties, viz. Berks, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloster, Hereford, Somerset, Monmouth and South Wales, an alphabetical list of the names, residences, and professions of the commercial establishments in the above counties: a classification of trades to all market towns therein, with every information connected with the arrival and departure of mails and other coaches, posting houses, commerical inns, &c &c Accompanied by an historical and statistical display of the area in statute acres, the annual value therof, as assessed to the Property Tax in 1815; the annual income of the beneficed clergy, as returned to parliament in 1834; with a beautifully engraved map of each of the counties on which is delineated the new divisions or parochial unions, formed under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 3 & 4 William IV 1834. In two volumes - Vol. I containing London Directory (vol 2)
Robson, William A (1895-1980); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Jones, Louis
1840
Vol I contains London street key, London commercial directory, itineraries. Vol II Gloucestershire to Worcestershire, North Wales and South Wales [Bedford copy lacking many folding maps].
Robson's commercial directory of London and the Western Counties, viz. Berks, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloster, Hereford, Somerset, Monmouth and South Wales, an alphabetical list of the names, residences, and professions of the commercial establishments in the above counties: a classification of trades to all market towns therein, with every information connected with the arrival and departure of mails and other coaches, posting houses, commerical inns, &c &c Accompanied by an historical and statistical display of the area in statute acres, the annual value therof, as assessed to the Property Tax in 1815; the annual income of the beneficed clergy, as returned to parliament in 1834; with a beautifully engraved map of each of the counties on which is delineated the new divisions or parochial unions, formed under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 3 & 4 William IV 1834. In two volumes - Vol. I containing London Directory (vol 1)
Robson, William A (1895-1980); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Jones, Louis
1840
Vol I contains London street key, London commercial directory, itineraries. Vol II Gloucestershire to Worcestershire, North Wales and South Wales [Bedford copy lacking many folding maps].
Pigot and Co.'s royal national and commercial directory and topography of the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshre, Monmouthshire, Oxfordshire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire and North and South Wales : comprising classified lists of all persons in trade, and of the nobility, gentry and clergy... an account of every mode of transit for passengers and merchandise
Slater, I (1803-1883); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Wanklyn, Cyril (1864-1943); J. Pigot & Co
1844
Includes index. Includes advertisements at end of directory.
Pigot and Co.'s royal national and commercial directory and topography of the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshre, Monmouthshire, Oxfordshire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire and North and South Wales : comprising classified lists of all persons in trade, and of the nobility, gentry and clergy... an account of every mode of transit for passengers and merchandise
Slater, I (1803-1883); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Wanklyn, Cyril (1864-1943); J. Pigot & Co
1844
Includes index. Includes advertisements at end of directory.
The beauties of England and Wales, or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county (v.9)
Britton, John (1771-1857); Brayley, E W (1773-1854); Nightingale, Joseph (1775-1824); Brewer, James Norris (fl. 1799-1829); Evans, John (fl. 1812); Hodgson, John antiquary (1779-1845); Laird, Francis Charles; Shoberl, Frederic (1775-1853); Bigland, John (1750-1832); Rees, Thomas (1777-1864)
1801-1816
Each volume has an additional title-page, engraved. "List of books &c." with each county. "In the earlier volumes [1-6] the letterpress seems to have been mainly Brayley's, while the general editi...
Pigot and Co.'s national commercial directory for 1828-9 : comprising a directory and classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders, in all the cities, towns, sea-ports, and principal villages in the following counties in England, viz.: Cheshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Durham, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Rutlandshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Westmoreland, Worcestershire, Yorkshire. And the whole of North Wales. With Historical and Topographical Delineations, Tables of the Distances of the Towns in every County, one from the other and each from London;. the whole embellished with a large map of England and sixteen elegant county maps
Pigot, James (1843); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Chambers, William (1809-1882)
[1828]
Manchester directory has 2 page additions 363*-364* inserted. No maps [in Bedford copy]
Pigot and Co.'s national commercial directory : comprising a directory and classification of the merchants, bankers, professional gentlemen, manufacturers and traders in all the cities, towns, sea-ports, and prinicipal villages in the following counties, viz., Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Somersetshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire, and the whole of South Wales. With historical and topographical delineations, tables of the distances of the towns in every county, one from the other and each from London; the whole embellished with 18 elegant county maps
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Chambers, William (1809-1882); J. Pigot & Co
1830
Includes index. No maps [in Bedford Collection A039 copy]. Bedford Collection C420 comprises only Monmouthshire, pages 513-526. Second general survey 1821-1830.