The new British traveller: or, A complete modern universal display of Great-Britain and Ireland (...) being really the result of an actual and late general survey, accurately made by a Society of Gentlemen (...).

Folio: 520-[4] pp. (spotting and browning, title & frontisp. rep. & frayed, a few tears, tear in 1st fold. map).

Quarter sheep (rubbed), gilt flat spine (rubbed, joints rubbed and def. at heads & tails).

First edition of this extensive survey on the whole of Great Britain, published weekly in 60 parts and overseen by the British topographical writer G.A. Walpoole. Engr. ill.: frontisp., 88 pl. showing topographical views (1-3 per page: towns, residences, castles, churches, ...) and 23 maps, of which 4 folding. The chief interest of this book lies in its great detail, as a source book for British settlements at a time of great industrial and social change. A later edition (1794) was published as "The new and complete English traveller". Incl. the 4 pp. list of subscribers. Ref. ESTC T110455, Cp. N20364. - Cox III:155. - COPAC.