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Map of Great Britain, England and Wales, scale about 27 miles to 1 inch, surveyed by Thomas Kitchin, published in the New and Complete British Traveller, Walpoole, 1784.
(map example HMCMS:FA1997.116)
map feature:- title cartouche & compass rose (fairly plain, north indicated by fleur de lys, east by a cross) & scale line (statute miles) & lat and long scales & lat and long grid & table of symbols (different sizes of settlement, sand and rocks)
inscription:- printed title cartouche
A New and / Accurate Map of / that District of / GREAT BRITAIN, / called England & Wales. &c. / from the / latest & most Correct / SURVEYS / by T. KITCHEN, / Geographer & hydrographer to His / MAJESTY.
landscape with ships, travellers, and a lion!
inscription:- printed top/bottom
Engraved for WALPOOLE's New & Complete BRITISH TRAVELLER. / N.B. The New & Correct MAPS of SCOTLAND, IRELAND, &c. will be given COMPLETE in the Course of the Publication.
wxh, plate:- 34.5x39cm
scale:- 1 to 1700000 ? (estimated)
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references:- Walpoole: 1784: New and Complete British Traveller
sources:- HMCMS Map Collection
private collection
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