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map type:- Cary 1787
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Maps, Westmoreland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, and
Cumberland, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, in Cary's New
and Correct English Atlas, by John Cary, 188 Strand, London,
1787; published as one part of a monthly series, 1787-89;
published 1787-93; and re-engraved from 1809.
Published in 'CARY'S NEW and CORRECT ENGLISH ATLAS: BEING
A New Set of County Maps FROM ACTUAL SURVEYS. EXHIBITING All
the Direct & principal Cross Roads, Cities, Towns, and most
considerable Villages, Parks, Rivers, NAVIGABLE CANALS &c.
Preceded by a General MAP of South Britain, SHEWING The
Connexion of one Map with another. ALSO A General
Description of each County, AND Directions for the junction
of the Roads from one County to ANOTHER. / LONDON. Printed
for JOHN CARY, Engraver, Map and Print-seller, the corner of
Arundel Street, Strand. Published as the Act directs Septr.
1st 1787.'
The Westmorland map appeared in part 5, January 1788.
The atlas has title page, dedication, list of subscribers,
contents, each county has a page of text; at the end is text
for 'Directions for the junction of the Roads', a list of
'The Market and Borough Towns' and 'A List of the Principal
Post and Sub-Post-Towns with their Receiving Houses'; the
atlas pays attention to routes; as well as the features
described in the title page there is a text description of
52 major routes, indexed to the county maps.; the atlas size
is 10 x 13 ins
The Monthly Review, December 1786: 'Mr Cary's Surveys are,
without question, the most accurate and elegant of any that
have appeared since the days of Roque.'; John Cary was born
23 February 1755 at Corsley, near Warminster, Wiltshire; it
is significant the atlas is dedicated to Thomas 3rd Viscount
Weymouth, Baron Thynne of Warminster, later 1st Marquess of
Bath.
A notice in the English Review, December 1789, '... the
purchaser of Cary's Atlas will find that the work itself
contains much more useful matter than is announced in the
title-page ... Works of this kind derive their great value
from the accuracy of their execution. Without strict
attention to this, they are worse than nothing; they pretend
to instruct, they inspire confidence, and they deceive. We
have examined this publication with some attention, have
compared it with many of the best county maps on a large
scale, and do not find that it suffers by the comparison.
The author appears to have exerted himself to merit that
approbation, which everyone who ventures before the public
tribunal should endeavour to deserve; and it gives us
pleasure to see, by the long list of subscribers that
precedes the work, that he has not laboured in vain. ... The
neatness of the engraving is highly to be commended, as,
besides its general pleasing effect, it renders these maps
less fatiguing to the eye than those on a much larger scale,
which are executed, as maps too commonly are, in a slovenly
manner.'
Published in another edition '... London. Printed for
John Cary, Engraver & Map-seller, No.181, near Norfolk
Street, Strand. Published as the Act directs Jany. 1st.
1793.'
The map has a facing page of text; the map probably has a
letters engraved where each road leaves the county, to
correspond with the same letter on the adjoining county
sheet, embryonic road numbering.
Published in a re-engraved edition 1809 onwards, qv.
There were several reissues of the 1793 edition in which the
map is dated 1793; it may have slight additions?
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Cary 1809 |
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(map example Hampshire Museums : FA1999.56.15)
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map feature:-
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title cartouche & compass rose & scale line &
lat and long scales & county & rivers & parks
& woods & settlements & roads & canals
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inscription:-
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printed bottom
London : Published as the Act directs Sepr. 1st. 1787 by
J. Cary, Engraver, Map & Print seller the corner of Arundel
Street Strand.
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scale line:-
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10 miles = 50.3 mm
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scale:-
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1 to 320000 ? (1 to 319949 from scale line)
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sources:-
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Chubb 1927 (CCLX)
Hodson 1984
HMCMS Map Collection
Wordsworth Trust Collection
Armitt Library
Kendal Library Maps
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items seen (illustrated items in bold):- |
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Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.54
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Armitt Library : ALMC2008.14.55
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Carlisle Library : Map 168
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Carlisle Library : Map 169
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Carlisle Library : Map 170
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Carlisle Library : Map 171
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Carlisle Library : Map 172
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Carlisle Library : Map 256
-- map -- Cumberland
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Carlisle Library : Map 257
-- map -- Cumberland
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Dove Cottage : 2007.38.77
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Dove Cottage : 2007.38.130
-- descriptive text -- Westmoreland
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Dove Cottage : 2007.38.131
-- descriptive text -- Cumberland
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Dove Cottage : 2007.38.132
-- descriptive text -- Cumberland
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Dove Cottage : Lowther.39
-- map -- Cumberland
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Hampshire Museums : FA1999.56.8
-- map -- Cumberland
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Hampshire Museums :
FA1999.56.12
-- map -- Durham
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Hampshire Museums :
FA1999.56.15
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Hampshire Museums :
FA1999.56.20
-- map -- Lancashire
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Hampshire Museums :
FA1999.56.27
-- map -- Northumberland
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Hampshire Museums :
FA1999.56.42
-- map -- North Riding of Yorkshire
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Hampshire Museums :
FA1999.56.45
-- map -- West Riding of Yorkshire
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Kendal Library : Map 3
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Kendal Library : Map 5
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Kendal Library : Map 13
-- map -- Westmoreland
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Kendal Library : Map 62
-- map -- Westmoreland
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private collection (177)
-- map -- North Riding of Yorkshire
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private collection (178)
-- map -- Yorkshire
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private collection (288)
-- map -- Cumberland
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