Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Baker, James, topographer
Title:
The imperial guide : with picturesque plans of the great post roads, containing miniatures likenesses, engraved from real sketches of the cities, towns, villages, seas, islands, mountains, public edifices, and private buildings ... / by J. Baker.
Published / Created:
London : Printed by C. Whittingham ..., and sold by H.D. Symonds ..., White ..., Otridge ..., Richardson ..., [and 4 others], 1802.
Physical Description:
iv, 66, [36] p. : ill. maps ; 23 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA625 B3 1802

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates engraved by I. [i.e. J.H.] Wright, F. Ross, John Bluck, and Francis Chesham; after James Baker, H. James, Julius Caesar Ibbetson, Samuel Stringer, John Bluck, and William Anderson.

British Art Center copy imperfect: author's name has been erased from t.p.

Maps are strip road maps, illustrated with vignettes of country houses and towns. Route is represented by a single line. cf. Smith, David. Victorian maps of the British Isles, p. 55, 87-88.

Added engraved t.p. with title that reads: Intirely new picturesque views and plans of the roads.

Page 1-27 also separately published with title: Multum in parvo: fashionable tours from London. London, 1802.
Subject Terms:
Whittingham, C. -- Printer. | Symonds, H.D. -- Publisher. | White, -- Publisher. | Otridge -- Publisher. | Richardson -- Publisher. | Great Britain -- Description and travel. | Great Britain -- Road maps. | Engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1802.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1802.
Contributors:
Wright, J. H., active 1808–1818, engraver. | Ross, F., engraver. | John Bluck, active 1791–1819, engraver. | Chesham, Francis, 1749–1806, engraver. | Baker, James, topographer, ill. | James, H., ill. | Ibbetson, Julius, 1759–1817, ill. | Stringer, Samuel, -approximately 1784, ill. | Anderson, William, 1757–1837, ill.