PATERSON’S ROADS OF ENGLAND AND. WALES. 
419 
' and every other Object worthy the Attention of the curious Visitor, as well as the Resident 
"tt the vast Capital. 18mo. 
A Specious, tempting, catching title, 
is the principal object of study with a 
certain class of book-makers, among 
whom the publishers of the above books 
are particularly distinguished. Novelty 
Sie excites imitation; and while 
@ man of talent endeavours to excel his 
original, the ploddmg knave catches 
some of its leading traits, and imposes a 
surreptitious copy on the public for an 
improved original work. This is precise- 
ly the case with the works before us :— 
Mr. Phillips having published a Picture 
of London (see Anntal Review, vol. I. 
page 479) which obtained an extensive 
circulation, the proprietors of the above 
works immediately had it abridged and 
mutilated, and foisted them upon the 
town as “ improved new Pictures of Len- 
don.”? 
Arr. XX. A new and accurate Description of all the direct and principal Cross-roads in 
England ard Wales, and Part of the Roads of Scotland, with correct Routes of the Mail- 
Coaches, and a great Variety of new Admeasurements 3 also, a Table of the Heights of 
__ Mountains, and other Eminences, from the grand trigonometrical Survey of the Kingdoms 
under the Direction of Major Mudge; an Account of Noblemen’s and Gentlemen’s Seats, 
_ and orher remarkable Objects near the Roads; a general Index of the Roads to the different 
Towns, denoting the Counties in which they are situated, their Market-days, and the Inus 
which supply Post-borses ; an Index to the Country Seats; a List of the Rates of the 
Postage of Letters, Sc. Sc. Sc. The Whole greatly augmented and improved by the Ass 
. sistance of Francis Freeling, Esq. Secretary to the Post-office, and of the several Surveyors 
“of the provincial Districts, under the Authority of the Post-master General. By Licut. 
Voloiel Parurson. 8vo. pp. 570. 
THIS comprehensive title-page pretty 
fully explains the nature and contents of 
the work before us. It now claims the 
public patronage, under peculiar circum- 
_ stances, having latterly been opposed by 
a rival production, whose proprietor has 
taken extraordinary pains to puff his 
own book into celebrity, and depreciate 
‘the authenticity and value of this. The 
history of which circumstance, and of 
Mr. Paterson’s work, will be found in 
the following extract, from an introduc- 
tory advertisement by Mr. Francis New- 
berry, the proprietor of this volume: 
“In presenting to the public a new edi- 
tion (being the thirdeenth) of a book, which 
_ has attracted a general attention, from its uti- 
lity, for more than thirty years; and which 
has been Jately with-held, in consequence of 
_ a suit at law, it seems necessary to prefix a 
short history of this work, and of the late 
" proceedings, for the information and satisfac- 
tion of those who have hitherto honoured it 
_ with their approbation and support. 
«© 1n the year 1771, Mr. Daniel Paterson, 
_ assistant quarter-master general of his majes- 
_ ty’s forces, brought out the fisst edition of 
it this book, which his official occupations had 
led him to prepare, under the title it now re- 
~ tains, of ‘A new and aceurate Description of 
“the Koads of England and Wales, &c. &c.’ 
Tt had gained so much repute, that several 
editions, of many thousands in number, had 
_ been sold before the year 1788, when the pre- 
fent proprietor became possessed of the copy 
j 
right, by the death of a relation, who had 
originally purchased the work. Many more 
editions passed off; and the eleventh, (of 
10,0.0 number,) which was printed in 17y6, 
was increased, by the communication of 
friends, to nearly treble its original sizé. Soom 
after this period, Mr. Cary, who had been 
employed by the post-office to make new ad- 
measurements of some of the principal roads, 
solely with the view to the regulation of the 
mail-coaches, exhibited a printed specimen 
of an intended book of a similar kind. This 
naturally came into the hands of the propri- 
etor of Paterson’s; who observing, that in- 
stead of a new scheme, it was a direct adop- 
tion of his own plan and design, immedi- 
ately called on Mr. Cary, and remonstrated 
against such publication as an invasion of his 
right.” 
In spite of Mr. Newberry’s remon- 
strances, Mr. Cary published his T'ra- 
velling Directory in opposition to Pater- 
son’s,.and entitled it « Cary’s new Itine- 
rary, Of an accurate Delineation of the 
great Roads, both direct and cross, 
throughout England and Wales,” &c. 
Mr. Newberry proceeds to state, that not 
onlythe scheme and design of Paterson’s 
book had been seized upon, but the 
greatest part of its substance had been 
transplanted ‘into this’ new Itinerary ; 
* often in a manner so servile,’’ says Mr. 
Newberry, “ as not to disguise the plagi- 
arisms by a change of words. It was- 
manifestly a copy at the beginning,, te 
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