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Map, uncoloured engraving, The West Riding of Yorkshire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, Awnsham, and John Churchill, London, 1695.
Included in Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English, by Edmund Gibson, Queens College, Oxford, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
   Morden 1695
map feature:- scroll cartouche & up is N & scale lines & lat and long scales (\/slanted rectangular projection) & rivers & relief & hillocks & woods & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed title cartouche, upper right
THE / WEST RIDING / of / YORKSHIRE / by Robt. Morden.
inscription:- printed lower left
Sold by / Abel Swale / Awnsham and / John Churchill
inscription:- printed with 3 scale lines
A Scale of 10 Miles / Great / Middle / Small
scale line:- 10 miles = 67.3 mm
scale line:- 10 miles = 64.2 mm
scale line:- 10 miles = 59.7 mm
scale:- 1 to 250000 ? (1 to 252512 average from scale lines, wrongly assuming a statute mile)
wxh, sheet:- 48.5x42cm
wxh, map:- 413x359mm