AN IMPROVED MAP OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET...


Book Description
...DIVIDED INTO IT'S HUNDREDS: LAID DOWN & COLLECTED FROM THE BEST MATERIALS, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH VARIOUS ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS; WITH HISTORICAL EXTRACTS RELATIVE TO ITS NATURAL PRODUCE, TRADE, MANUFACTURES &C.
Dedicated "To the Most Noble and Right Honble. John Pawlet Earl Pawlet, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum for the County of Somerset, and one of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Bedchamber, This MAP is dedicated by His Lordships Most humble Servant. Eman Bowen"
Dealer Notes
Laid on linen in sixteen sections, hand-coloured in outline, overall size 720mm x 550mm, beautifully engraved, lovely chart of Bath, vignette of a Lady alighting from her sedan chair carried by two male servants in some fashionable address in Bath.
The whole printed surface is crammed with historical information, not wasting an inch of paper.
The whole printed surface is crammed with historical information, not wasting an inch of paper.
Author
Emanuel Bowen
Date
1770
Publisher
Printed for Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church-Yard & Robert Sayer in Fleet-Street
Condition
Good
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