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James I. and dedicated to that monarch. I cUd not 

 care to purchase such a book myself, although the 

 price was very moderate ; but I have no doubt that 

 as a curiosity the book was of great value, and I 

 recommended the bookseller not to let it q-q unless 

 he obtained a good price for it, as it is not often 

 •one meets with a county atlas published as early 

 as the year 1605. It was a large folio volume bound 

 in calf, with a very elaborate title-page. 



Gary's " Traveller's Companion," of which I have 

 spoken elsewhere, was published by Cary, the engraver, 

 at 86, St. James's Street, and bears the date of 1828. 

 It was bound in calf Mogg's " Itinerary " is a small 

 pocket volume, bound in green morocco, and published 

 at the Office of Roads, 14, Great Russell Street, Govent 

 Garden. 



The last edition of " Paterson's Roads " is simply 

 perfect ; It is wonderfully well bound in calf, the letter- 

 press is most excellent and well arranged, and the 

 maps are triumphs of art ; in fact, Mr. Stanford, the 

 well-known map-seller of Gharing Gross, when he sold 

 me this last copy, called my attention to the beautiful 

 engraving of these maps, saying that there was nothing 

 produced at the present day to equal them. 



I believe that copies of this book now are very 

 rare and consequently difficult to obtain. Some road- 

 books have been written of late years for the use 

 of bicyclists and tricyclists, but they cannot bear any 

 comparison to the celebrated old standard road-book 

 of the coaching days. I will speak of recent road- 

 books and maps at another time. Paterson's road- 

 book also contained a table of the charges for a pair of 

 post-horses for any stage from five miles to twenty, 

 at any rates from twelve to eighteenpence per mile. 



