Copperplate

The first edition of the new 1695 Gibson translation of Camden's Britannia. Original full leather binding in good condition. Title page trimmed, laid down and restored. Some other pages frayed and repaired and strengthened. 42 county maps, plus maps of England & Wales, Roman Britain, Saxon Britain, North Wales, South Wales, Scotland, and offshore islands - 49 in total. Some maps folded and with various repairs and strengthening to areas of weak paper (3 laid down). Some re-attached. Despite the defects a handsome looking volume.

Rebound in half leather binding. Ex-library copy. Title page damaged with some loss and repair and frontispiece laid down and re-attached. Preface somewhat frayed and stained, and some repairs to a few other pages, but otherwise an acceptable copy of an uncommon publication originally issued as a partwork. 50 maps of the English and Welsh counties, plus 2 of offshore islands, and a general map of the British Isles. The called-for map of the country 20 miles around London is missing. 37 of the maps were first published in Thomas Read's English Traveller of 1743/45 or John Rocque's Small British Atlas from c 1753. 10 are by Thomas Kitchin and were first published in the London Magazine from 1757-63. 4 are by George Rollos and were originally issued in the British Magazine in 1762-3. The Bedforshire map is also closely copied from a Rollos original. The author of the general map is unknown.Most of the maps are in good condition, but 3 "Rollos" maps are trimmed within one border and one is folded and slightly rubbed. 2 other county maps have minor marginal repairs, and the general map of the British Isles has wear at the folds and is rather grubby. Many other plates.

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.

Original green cloth gilt and quarter leather binding. Spine a little rubbed but otherwise quite acceptable. 50 map plates of the 54 called for (missing the 4 plates on Inland Navigation, but these are supplied separately from a different copy and could be tipped into the atlas). Original full colouring to the maps with a double page of descriptive text for each county. 39 single page county maps, double page maps of Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Single page maps of England & Wales, the Isle of Wight, and other offshore islands. The maps were first issued in J. Gorton's Topographical Dictionary of England & Wales in 1833, being used the next year for the titled publication. There were several later editions under various titles, and with revisions to the maps and their imprints.

In c1845 George Cruchley purchased most of the printing plates owned by the Cary family. He subsequently continued to issue many of their works, albeit with changed imprints, and printed by lithographic transfer rather than directly from the original copper plates. Cary's New and Correct English Atlas became Cruchley's County Atlas of England and Wales, first published as such in 1862. This is the 1875 edition of the work, with the maps hand coloured in wash and outline. 44 maps of the English counties (5 of Yorkshire), and 3 general maps of Englaand and Wales, North Wales and South Wales. The maps in nice condition. Quarter leather binding, the boards and spine a little rubbed, but otherwise a good copy of this atlas.

Red cloth gilt, rubbed, faded and fraying at spine. Hinges cracked. 24 double page, linen-backed map sheets covering the whole of England & Wales. The maps in good condition.

Two volumes with lxviii/816 and 872 pages resepctively. Red cloth and red half leather bindings. 31 coloured, single page county maps, 9 other coloured, single or double page maps (including town plans), and 18 topographical prints. Occasional spotting throughout the text, affecting some maps, but mostly to the margins and not the printed areas. The single page maps are of the stated dimensions.

Original half leather binding. Boards and binding rather rubbed, with the top 1cm of the spine deatched. Internally quite good. 49 maps (mostly single page and most in full wash colour) - 40 county maps plus 4 of the Yorkshire Ridings, 2 of Wales, 2 general maps of England and Wales, and maps of the Lake District, South Scotland, and Thanet. Map of Derbyshire is a folding map on a larger scale than the other counties. Repaired tears to maps of the Lakes and Derbyshire. These maps were first published by Charles Cooke from c1802-1810 to illustrate a series of small topographical directories. They were later re-used in 1824 by George Carrington Gray in his New Book of Roads, which could be purchased with or without the county maps.

This gazetteer was edited by J. Brabner and published by Mackenzie in it's first and only edition in c1894. The maps were printed in colour by lithographic transfer, and are divided between the 6 volumes. .The maps comprise a folding general map of England and Wales, 43 maps covering the English counties, 10 maps covering the Welsh counties, a map of the Isle of Man, and 14 town plans. The folding map is torn but the others are all in very good condition. In addition there are 24 topographic prints. The county maps were engraved by F.S. Weller, but the town plans are generally unattributed. The spines of the volumes are faded and a little bent over at top and bottom, but the volumes are otherwise in very good condition.