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[An atlas of the counties of England and Wales [cartographic material]
Saxton, Christopher (1542-)
[1579]
Consists of 45 coloured maps, variously dated from 1574 to 1579, which represent the earliest survey of England and Wales. There is one general map of England and Wales; 24 are maps of single counties...
A prospect of the most famous parts of the world... Together with the provinces, counties, and shires, contained in that large theater of Great Brittaines empire
Speed, John (1552?-1629); Speed, John (1552?-1629)
1646-1651
Second title-page: The theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine... by Iohn Speed. Imprinted at London anno ... 1650. Are to be sold by George Humble ... [etc.]". "A new and accurat [sic] map of the w...
Cary's Traveller's companion; or, a delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales; shewing the immediate route to every market and boroughtown throughout the kingdom, laid down from the best authorities, on a new set of county maps : To which is added, an alphabetical list of all the market towns, with the days on which they are held
Cary, John (1754-1835)
1828
First 3 leaves, incl. t.-p., are engraved. This edition is printed from a third set of engraved plates, which actually came into use in 1822. Those county maps printed with the East or West at the t...
Cruchley's railroad companion to England & Wales : shewing all the railways & stations with their names, also the turnpike roads to all the market and borough towns. With the distance from town to town. Delineated on a series of 42 county maps
Cruchley, G F; Cary, John (1754-1835)
[1862]
The maps are lithographic reproductions of those in Cary's Traveller's companion, with railways added. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 58. Each map bears Cru...
Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland : containing a whole sheet map of England; a whole sheet map of Scotland; a whole sheet map of Ireland, and... county maps ... [etc.]
Lodge, John map engraver
[1795]
No title-page; catalogued from label on cover. Contains reprints of maps which had originally appeared in the Political Magazine from 1782-1790. They were all engraved by John Lodge, whose name appe...
England delineated, or, A geographical description of every county in England and Wales : with a concise account of its most important products, natural and artificial : for the use of young persons : with outline maps of all the counties
Aikin, John (1747-1822)
1795
Maps in outline, showing only the town and rivers, and are without scales, borders, or any other information. Preface dated 1788, and signed: John Aikin. Includes index.
A new and complete abridgment or selection of the most interesting and important subjects in The antiquities of England and Wales : being a complete collection of beautiful views of the most remarkable buildings and ancient ruins drawn on the spot. To each view will be added an historical letter-press account and description of its situation, when and by whom built, with every interesting circumstance relating thereto. Collected from the best authorities
Grose, Francis (1731?-1791); Kitchin, Thomas (1718-1784); Conder, Thomas
1798
With the exception of the map of Yorkshire, which is by T. Conder, the county maps are by T. Kitchin and originally appeared in The London Magazine from 1747 to 1760.--Whitaker The Harold Whitaker Col...
Smith's new English atlas : being a complete set of county maps, divided into hundreds, on which are delineated all the direct and cross roads part of which are from actual measurement, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, gentlemen's seats, rivers, and navigable canals: preceded by a general map of England and Wales on which the principal roads are carefully described, for the purpose of facilitating the connexion of the respective maps. The whole accompanied by an index villaris, containing upwards of forty thousand names of places mentioned in the work, with reference to their situation
Smith, Charles (fl. 1803-1862); Jones & Smith
1804
This was the first county atlas with the maps based on the meridian of Greenwich Observatory, though not all the maps are accurately so done. It is up to date as regards canals and turnpike roads.--Wh...
Smith's new English atlas : being a complete set of county maps, divided into hundreds, on which are delineated all the direct and cross roads part of which are from actual measurement cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, gentlemen's seats, rivers, and navigable canals: preceded by a general map of England and Wales on whichthe principal roads are carefully described, for the purpose of facilitating the connexion of the respective maps. The whole accompanied by an index villaris, containing upwards of forty thousand names of places mentioned in the work, with reference to their situation
Smith, Charles (fl. 1803-1862); Jones & Smith
1804
Maps dated "January 6th 1804". Map imprints: "Jones & Smith sc." These names have been added to the maps of Cheshire and Lancashire, from which they had been missing in another state of the 1804 edi...
Smith's new English atlas : being a complete set of county maps, divided into hundreds, on which are delineated all the direct and cross roads part of which are from actual measurement, cities, towns, and most considerable villages, parks, gentlemen's seats, rivers, and navigable canals: preceded by a general map of England and Wales on which the principal roads are carefully described, for the purpose of facilitating the connexion of the respective maps. The whole accompanied by an index villaris, containing upwards of forty thousand names of places mentioned in the work, with reference to their situation
Smith, Charles (fl. 1803-1862)
1808
Greenwich meridian. The mail-coach routes are now distinctively coloured dark orange, to distinguish them from the other turnpike routes which are coloured buff. A few maps show revisions since the ...
The picture of England : illustrated with correct colour'd maps of the several counties. In two volumes (v.1)
Green, William (fl. 1768-1826); Butters, R
1804
Maps previously issued in An atlas of England... by R. Butters ... (1803). (Chubb CCCX). This was apparently an attempt to produce something different. A number of the maps are drawn with the South ...
The picture of England : illustrated with correct colour'd maps of the several counties. In two volumes (v.2)
Green, William (fl. 1768-1826); Butters, R
1804
Maps previously issued in An atlas of England... by R. Butters ... (1803). (Chubb CCCX). This was apparently an attempt to produce something different. A number of the maps are drawn with the South ...