Paterson's Hampshire 1785-93, preface

Title and Preface Pages

Paterson's Hampshire 1785-93

spine

Each volume (copy in a private collection) is leather bound, wxh=11.5x19cm; the spine reads:-

PATERSON'S BRITISH ITINERARY

title page

title page

The title page reads:-

Paterson's / BRITISH ITINERARY / Being / A new and accurate / delineation AND Description / of the / Direct and Principal Cross / ROADS / OF / Great Britain / IN TWO VOLUMES / By / CAPTN. DANIEL PATERSON, / Assistant to the Quarter Master General of / HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES / VOL.II. / LONDON / Printed for and Sold by the Proprietor / CARINGTON BOWLES. / At his Map and print Warehouse, / No. 69 / St. Paul's Church Yard. / Tomkins scr. Ellis sculpt. / Published as the Act directs, 3 Jan. 1785.

Part way through volume 2 there is a subsidiary title page:-

Paterson's / BRITISH ITINERARY / CROSS ROADS. / NB. The INDEX is given in VOL. I. / Published as the Act directs, 3 Jan. 1785

dedication

dedication

The dedication page has the royal coat of arms of a hanoverian king in the period 1714-1801; this quartered the three lions of England, the lion of Scotland, the harp of Ireland, and fleur de lys for France! plus the hanoverian shield which includes the arms of Brunswick, Luneberg and Westphalia, and the arms of office of the Arch Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire.

The dedication reads:-

TO / THE KING'S / Most excellent Majesty / This Description / of the / Roads of Great Britain / is, by PERMISSION, / Most humbly Inscribed / By His Majesty's / Most Dutiful Subject and servant / DANIEL PATERSON.

	Paterson's Hampshire 1785-93, contents
	General index
	Old Hampshire Mapped