CARY, John: Cary's Six Sheet Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland: On which are Carefully Laid down All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals, Cities, Markets ... Compiled from the Most Recent Surveys

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CARY, John : Cary's Six Sheet Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland: On which are Carefully Laid down All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads, the Course of the Rivers and Navigable Canals, Cities, Markets ... Compiled from the Most Recent Surveys

1350 x 1050 mm., in full early wash colour, cut, dissected and laid on linen. With the original publishers marbled paper slipcase with paper title pasted on, with slight wear. The map in good condition.

The map is drawn to the scale of 8 miles to the inch. It is drawn with Greenwich as the meridian with all the roads well illustrated and the distance between towns marked. It was first published in 1818 with subsequent editions in 1823, 1824 offered here, 1826 and 1840. Provenance: manuscript ownership mark of Lady Ellenborough (1807-81), noted English aristocrat whose scandalous life included four husbands and numerous lovers. Fordham (1925) Cary p. 103-4.

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