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Map, hand coloured engraving, Yorkshire, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, Strand, London, 1787, edn 1793.
Plate 41 in Cary's New and Correct English Atlas.
   Cary 1787
map feature:- compass rose cartouche & compass rose & scale line & lat and long scales (W from London, rectangular projection) & sea plain & coast form lines & rivers & parks & county & settlements & roads
inscription:- printed lower right, in and below title cartouche
YORKSHIRE / By JOHN CARY Engraver.
inscription:- printed bottom
London : Published Jany 1 1793, by J. Cary, Engraver & Mapseller Strand.
inscription:- printed above scale line
Statute Miles 69 1/2 to a Degree.
scale line:- 20 miles = 45.7 mm
wxh, sheet:- 27.5x22.5cm
wxh, map:- 263x212mm
scale:- 1 to 700000 ? (1 to 704308 from scale line)