The English gentleman's guide, or, A new and compleat book of maps of all England and Wales : shewing its ancient and present government, divided as in the Saxon heptarchy : also into dioceses, judges circuits, and counties : describing all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages, noble and gentlemens seats, archbishops and bishops sees, universities, places which send members to Parliament, &c. : with the names of the rivers, sea-ports, sand-hills, moors, forests, &c. : all the great or post-roads, cross-roads, posts for directions on the roads, ponds, inns and houses on the roads, with the distances of measur'd miles, according to Mr. Ogilby's survey : with many additions and corrections not extant on any maps : the whole being finely engrav'd, and made portable either for cloak-bag, portmanteau, or pocket.
Published / Created:
London : Printed and sold by Phil. Overton, map and print-seller, at the Golden Buck against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, and Tho. Bowles, map and print-seller, next the Chapter House in St. Paul's Church-yard ... [1717?]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets ; sheets 47 x 146 cm or smaller, folded in cover 48 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale approximately 1:360,000 -- (W 5⁰50ʹ00--E 1⁰50ʹ00/N 55⁰50ʹ00--N 49⁰51ʹ00).
Notes:
Based on Christopher Browne's "A new mapp of the Kingdom of England ..." (1700). See Shirley.