Table of Computed Distances of the Towns of Yorkshire from the Metropolis, and From Each Other. Compiled fo the History, Directory, and Gazetteer of Yorkshire. _ Published by Edward Baines, Leeds.
Leeds: Printed by Edward Baines [n.d., c.1822.]
Letterpress with wood engraved border. Sheet 430 x 530mm (17 x 21), paper watermarked 'H S 1816'. Damage, mainly to left borders but affecting text lower left corner, original folds.
The table of distance lists 74 places in Yorkshire and London. Other tables lists the stops on the mail routes from York to Edinburgh and London, the route from London to Paris via Dover, and the dates of the 'Fixed and 'Mouveable Fairs of the County and Ainsty of York'. Baines was editor of the Leeds Mercury newspaper. His 'History, Directory & Gazetteer of the County of York. With Select Lists of the Merchants & Traders of London, and the Principal Commercial and Manufacturing Towns of England, and a Variety of Other Commercial Information' was first published in 1822, with a second edition the following year.
[Ref: 60902] £320.00
Letterpress with wood engraved border. Sheet 430 x 530mm (17 x 21), paper watermarked 'H S 1816'. Damage, mainly to left borders but affecting text lower left corner, original folds.
The table of distance lists 74 places in Yorkshire and London. Other tables lists the stops on the mail routes from York to Edinburgh and London, the route from London to Paris via Dover, and the dates of the 'Fixed and 'Mouveable Fairs of the County and Ainsty of York'. Baines was editor of the Leeds Mercury newspaper. His 'History, Directory & Gazetteer of the County of York. With Select Lists of the Merchants & Traders of London, and the Principal Commercial and Manufacturing Towns of England, and a Variety of Other Commercial Information' was first published in 1822, with a second edition the following year.
[Ref: 60902] £320.00