William Darton (1755-1819), a Quaker and engraver, in 1787 established a modest bookshop in the City of London. He also published prints and books, mostly intended for a youthful readership. In the course of time his son, also William, began an independent book selling enterprise and between them these two Dartons, and their immediate descendants, came to be numbered among the most prolific and influential children’s book publishers of the first half of the 19th century … This map dated 1788 is amongst the very earliest of his productions and is separately published and therefore very rare. With an ornate title cartouche of a coaching scene upper right. There appears to be a later state by Darton & Harvey in 1806. But no record of an example in the British Library. Worms and Baynton-Williams.