Map Collection

Baker 1802

private collection:-	Road book, The Imperial Guide, post roads in England and Wales, by J Baker, published, London, 1802.
	The book has - frontispiece, mezzotint, young lady sitting in a park, with paint brush and a painted view; title page: introduction, address to the public; advertisements for other publications; then descriptive text of roads in England and Wales illustrated by perspective maps and mezzotitnt prints.
	The route that concerns Hampshire is the Lands End road - maps opposite p.51 and p.52 documented separately, text pp.52-53.
inscription:-	embossed -on- spine BAKER'S / IMPERIAL / GUIDE
inscription:-	printed -on- title page THE / IMPERIAL GUIDE, / WITH / PICTURESQUE PLANS / OF THE / GREAT POST ROADS, / CONTAINING / MINIATURE LIKENESSES, / ENGRAVED FROM REAL SKETCHES, / OF THE / CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, SEAS, ISLANDS, MOUNTAINS, PUBLIC / EDIFICES, AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS, / SITUATED IN AND NEAR SUCH THOROUGHFARES. / ALSO, / A NEW LETTER PRESS DESCRIPTION / OF ALL THE CELEBRATED / SCENERY AND LOCAL EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE ABOVE-MENTIONED SUBJECTS, / BIOGRAPHICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, AND HISTORICAL ANECDOTES; / AND ALL THE / Important Illustrations that could be attained by the assiduous Investigation and Survey. / BY J. BAKER, / AUTHOR OF THE PICTURESQUE GUIDE THROUGH SOUTH WALES AND THE MARCHES. / Our Posey is as a Gum, which oozes / From whence 'tis nourished - SHAKESPEARE. / LONDON: PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM, / Dean Street, Fetter Lane, / AND SOLD BY H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW; / WHITE, FLEET STREET; OTRIDGE, STRAND; RICHARDSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE; TAY- / LOR, HOLBORN; RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD; ROBSON, AND CARPENTER, / BOND STREET. / 1802.
dimension:-	wxh = 13.5x22cm
	Map Group -- Baker 1802 -- with Research Notes
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	MN: 27.8.2003

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