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Rout to every Market and Borough Town throughout the Kingdom. 
Laid down from the best Authorities, on a New Set of County 
Maps. To which is added, An Alphabetical List of all the Market 
Towns, with the Days on which they are held.’ London, 1792, 
8vo. This is a small pocket atlas of county maps, containing also 
an “ Advertisement”, “ Contents” (or list of the maps), and, at the 
end, a list of towns. The engraved title-page is dated, at foot, 
“1 st . Jan3\ 1791”, but all the maps hear date “Sep 1 ’. 1 1792”, 
except the folding map of Yorkshire, which is dated “ Sep r . 1 
1789”. There are 43 maps in all in this work. This is the 
earliest edition of the ‘ Traveller’s Companion.’ 
In ‘Cary’s Yew Itinerary’ (of which eleven editions, 1798- 
1828, were published, all London, 8vo), in a copy of the 5th ed. 
(1812), there is an advertisement of the “Small Octavo” atlas, in 
which it is described as being “ Peculiarly adapted for the Pocket, 
and to bind with Cary’s New Itinerary, as comprehending those 
small Branches of Turnpike Road which could not be described in 
that Work; shewing also the Line of the navigable Canals, Rivers, 
Etc.” This atlas was re-engraved, with slight corrections and 
additions throughout. 
(I have a copy in the re-engraved state dated 1819, and another 
appears to have been issued about 1824, or later, by J. & Gh Cary. 
There was a subsequent issue, with the names on the map re¬ 
written, the railways inserted, and other alterations made on the 
plate, by G. E. Cruchley about 1862, in his ‘ Railroad Companion to 
England and Wales.’ of which a copy exists in the British Museum. 
This last-mentioned work may, of course, have had various editions, 
and was probably finally reprinted as late as about 1875. In 1876 
the plates of this series of county maps, with the rest of Cruchley’s 
stock, were disposed of to Messrs. Grail & Inglis, of Edinburgh, in 
whose possession they remain. Messrs. Gall & Inglis inform me 
that they have never printed from this set of plates.) 
* 1792. Harrison, John. 18£ X 13. Scale, about 
2\ miles = 1 inch. [Engraved July 4, 1788.] 
An unaltered reprint of the map published in the edition of 
Harrison’s atlas of 1791. 
From ‘ Maps of the English Counties,’ by John Harrison— 
apparently the second, and last, edition—with an abbreviated title 
as compared with that of 1791, and the price at which the work is 
to be sold reduced to £ 2 2s. 
* 1793. Cary, John. 10-re X 8J. Scale, about 4| miles = 
1 inch. 
A re-engraved issue of Cary’s map of Herts of 1787, a trifle 
smaller than the original, and differing slightly in the details 
throughout. The imprint is altered to: “London. Published 
Jan?. 1 1793 by J. Cary Engraver & Mapseller Strand”. 
From ‘ Cary’s New and Correct English Atlas,’ the second 
edition, with the title as that of the first, except that at the foot the 
imprint is altered to : “ London. Printed for John Cary, Engraver 
