John Cary (c.1754-1835) and descendants were possibly the most prolific publishers of cartography around the turn of the eighteenth century. This is the first of three significant English County productions. Cary is noted for the clarity of detail in his maps and was the first to use the Greenwich meridian. This example of Cary’s ‘New and Correct English Atlas’ is from the first edition, dated 1787 on the title page. The atlas was issued in parts, the first being issued in September 1787, and the last in early 1789. An innovative feature he later introduced was to place a letter at the exit point of a road from the county. This letter would correspond to that found on the neighbouring county. This was an early form of numbering the roads. Provenance: private English collection. Chubb (1927) no. 261; Fordham (1925) p. 23; Hodson (1984-97) no. 285; Shirley (2004) T.Cary 2a; Smith ‘The Map Collector’ 43 pp. 40-47.