Subject: Northern Wales
Period: 1785 (circa)
Publication: The Large English Atlas
Color: Hand Color
Size:
26.6 x 20.3 inches
67.6 x 51.6 cm
A handsome map of northern Wales extending from Montgomeryshire north to Anglesey with both counties and hundreds delineated. The map is filled with detail including cities and towns, castles, early roads, rivers, lakes, and topography. A key at bottom further identifies rectories, vicarages, and mileages between towns. The blank spaces surrounding the map are filled with copious descriptions of various counties and cities. Printed for Carington Bowles and Robert Sayer.
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Condition: B
Issued folding with a couple of 1.5" fold separations along the middle fold and two short edge tears at bottom that have all been archivally repaired on verso. There is light soiling and colorist's ink stains running down the middle of the map.