Cary's New and Correct English Atlas.
by Cary, [John]
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- Hardcover
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; John Cary, 1793., 1793. Hard Cover. [SECOND EDITION]. Large quarto; pp [4], Maps, 14 Directions, 11 Market Towns and Post Towns etc), [1]. General Map of Southern Britain and 46 tissue-guarded county maps as called for, all attractively hand-coloured in outline (the West Riding map of Yorkshire covering 2 leaves) with facing leaf of accompanying text. Recent polished brown half -calf, with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and decoration in blind to compartments, over original marbled paper-covered boards. Boards lightly surface scuffed. Bookplate to front paste-down; light foxing, slightly heavier to tissue guards; no annotation or inscriptions. Text for Lancashire printed twice & Cambridgeshire text absent. A very good copy in an attractive binding. A generous wide-margined copy of the 1793 edition of Cary's County Atlas. John Cary (circa 1754-1835), the foremost cartographer of roads in England and Wales of his time, was commissioned by the Postmaster General in 1794 to survey the country's roads as his New Itinerary was then the standard work on the subject. The reference section to the rear of the volume gives the directions at road junctions throughout the counties, as well as market and borough towns with their distances from London,and a list of principal Post and sub-Post towns.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7760
- Title
- Cary's New and Correct English Atlas.
- Author
- Cary, [John]
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; John Cary, 1793.
- Date Published
- 1793
- Keywords
- Cartography
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