Accession number
PML 81834
Published
London : Printed by R. Bassam ... , 1796.
Credit line
Gift of Elisabeth Ball, 1965.
Notes
"(Price one shilling with cuts, and six-pence without.)"
"Embellished with copper-plate maps of each county."
"Very useful for travellers and others, and very proper for schools, to give youth an idea of geography, and the nature of his own country, and each county."
Illustration of two travelers and donkey with engraved headline 'Frontispiece' and caption 'To the Description of England and Wales,' signed W. Newman sc., is pasted to inside front cover.
Library's copy lacking the 'playing card' county maps, which were apparently bound in concertina-style.
"Embellished with copper-plate maps of each county."
"Very useful for travellers and others, and very proper for schools, to give youth an idea of geography, and the nature of his own country, and each county."
Illustration of two travelers and donkey with engraved headline 'Frontispiece' and caption 'To the Description of England and Wales,' signed W. Newman sc., is pasted to inside front cover.
Library's copy lacking the 'playing card' county maps, which were apparently bound in concertina-style.
Description
vii, [8]-108 pages, [1] leaf of plates : frontispiece ; 13 cm
Provenance
Elisabeth Ball.
Binding
Pink Dutch floral boards; in folder.
Classification
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