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A set of fifty new and correct maps of England and Wales, &c. : with the great roads and principal cross-roads, &c. shewing the computed miles from town to town ..
Title
A set of fifty new and correct maps of England and Wales, &c. : with the great roads and principal cross-roads, &c. shewing the computed miles from town to town ... / all, except two, composed and done by Herman Moll, geographer ...
Published
London : Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux-Court in the Strand, Tho. Bowles, print and map-seller near the Chapter House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Bowles print and map-seller over-against Stocks-Market, 1724.
Physical Description
1 atlas ([51] leaves) : illustrations, maps ; 23 x 35 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scales differ.
Local Notes
BAC Folio A 2023 7: Imperfect: lacks the first map. Title page is annotated in manuscript: "Corrected by William Stukeley, with addition of the Roman roads, stations, camps, &c." With Stukeley's annotations throughout. Front pastedown bears a map, part printed, part manuscript, showing the distances from Stukeley's home in Grantham. With additional manuscript "Map of the North Level &c." Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked. Has bound with it: Moll, Herman. A set of thirty six new and correct maps of Scotland divided into its shires, &c. (1725).
Notes
"And, to render this work more acceptable to this curious, the margins of each map are adorn'd with great variety of very remarkable antiquities."--Title page.
Relief shown pictorially.
Engraved, with a letterpress title page.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Shirley, R.W. Maps in the atlases of The British Library, T. Moll-6d
Hodson, D. County atlases of the British Isles published after 1703, 174
Chubb, T. Printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland, 161
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Atlases.
Road maps.
Annotations.
Manuscript maps.
Also listed under
BAC Folio A 2023 7 Exhibited in: Making History: Antiquaries in Britain (Yale Center for British Art, February 2, 2012-May 27, 2012)
Great Britain England London.
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