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Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694, published by Samuel Hooper, 212 High Holborn, London, 1787.
Included in The Antiquities of England and Wales, by Francis Grose.
The descriptive text with the map, and on the reverse, describes the county and lists antiquities worthy of notice.
   Seller 1694
source type:- Grose 1772-87 (edn 1787)
map feature:- oval cartouche & labelled borders & up is N & scale line & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper left
CUMBERLAND
inscription:- printed heading of descriptive text, below map
CUMBERLAND
inscription:- printed above scale line
English Miles
scale line:- 10 miles = 21.4 mm
scale:- 1 to 750000 ? (1 to 752030 from scale line)
wxh, sheet:- 22x33.5cm
wxh, plate:- 121x142mm
wxh, map:- 119x140mm
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