Half leather binding, with new spine. Boards a little rubbed, and bumped at corners, but otherwise good internally. 58 map sheets in original outline colour and in good condition. The maps cover all the English and Welsh counties (4 sheets cover Yorkshire), plus 2 general maps of England & Wales - one an index map for the atlas, the other showing rivers, canals and "railroads". There are 2-4 pages of descriptive text for each county. The maps were first used in the British Atlas, which was a companion volume to The Beauties of England & Wales, also written by Nightingale, and the imprints still bear the wording "to accompany the Beauties of England & Wales". Imprint dates vary from 1804 to 1809, and some must therefore have been revised as the first edition of The British Atlas came out in 1808. The maps were also later used in Dugdale's Curiosities in Great Britain from 1835.