Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. Unnumbered letterpress (45) leaves, and engraved and col. map (47) leaves, 17 p.; 33 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Copy in Map Div. 97-6049: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 325

Alternative title

1. New and correct English atlas.

Subject

1. Atlases > Early works to 1800
2. Great Britain > Maps > Early works to 1800

Contents

1. Contents: front. (map of Eng. & Wales); engr. t.-p.; Contents (Note on ver 80); 40 county maps (incl. Monmouthshire and a general map for Yorkshire), maps for East Riding and North Riding and two maps for West Riding, each with facing letterpress (printed recto only); maps of South Wales and North Wales with four p. letterpress; Directions for the junction of the roads, p. [1]-6; The market and borough towns, p. [7]-17.

Call number

1. Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Cary, J. Cary's new and correct English atlas)

Note

1. folio.
2. Engraved t.-p. only.
3. Tissue guard sheets.

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Indexed in (note)

1. NUC.

Source (note)

1. Pforzheimer copy acquired from Hodgson's, 9/20/56, lot 609, through Quaritch.

Author

1. Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835.

Title

1. Cary's new and correct English atlas : being a new set of county maps from actual surveys ...

Imprint

1. London : Printed for John Cary, 1793.

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexed in:

1. NUC.

Local note

1. Map Div. (Atlas Cases) copy: map of England and Wales follows title page and contents; library binding.
2. Map Div. 97-6049 copy: tissue guard sheets lacking; leaf with dedication follows title page; leaf with advertisement on recto and note on verso follows dedication; contents (without note on verso), with manuscript addition of page numbers, bound at end of volume. County maps not bound in alphabetical order. Leather binding.
3. Pforzheimer copy: tree calf, once rebacked, red morocco lettering-piece (in part).

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Access to the Pforzheimer Collection

Added title

1. New and correct English atlas.

Research call number

1. Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Cary, J. Cary's new and correct English atlas)
2. Map Div. 97-6049 [LHS 325; atlas cases]
3. *R Pforz ENG+ *Cary 1793