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Source Library: Trinity College Library Watkinson Collection
ESTCID: T198229
Notes: The titlepage and dedication are engraved. Each map is followed by a leaf of letterpress explanation. With a list of subscribers. Issued in 12 parts. In this setting the first column of the contents page ends: "Shropshire" and the four columns on p. 9 ('The market and borough towns') end: "Narboth", "Pickering", "Shelford" and "Tetbury". In some copies the preliminary and final letterpress leaves may be bound in different orders and one of the maps may bound in as the fontispiece.
Imprint: London : printed for John Cary. Published as the act directs Septr. 1st, 1787. Collation: [104],17,[1]p.,plates : maps ; 4°