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A Brief description of England and Wales : containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, climate, rivers, lakes, soils ... and the number of its inhabitants : as also the distance of each market town from London, by the latest survey, with the latitude and longitude of each county, town or city, and on what point of the compass from London.

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.
Description
vii, [8]-108 pages, [1] leaf of plates : frontispiece ; 13 cm
Provenance
Elisabeth Ball.
Binding
Pink Dutch floral boards; in folder.
Classification
Department