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Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
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A fine road book featuring a complete set of English county maps by Charles Cooke. The frontispiece bears a nice little vignette scene of a rider paying a toll at a toll-gate. With extensive details of the roads followed by the county atlas. About Gray little is known but the maps by Cooke were first published in 1806-10. Cooke was a bookseller who succeeded his father in Paternoster Row around 1789. Provenance: private English collection. Carroll (1996) no. 63; Chubb (1927) 392; Fordham (1924) p. 58.
GRAY, George Carrington
Gray's New Book of Roads. The Tourist and Travellers Guide to the Roads of England and Wales, and Part of Scotland
Sherwood, Jones, and Co. Paternoster Row, London, 1824
Duodecimo (150 x 130 mm.), original half calf and marbled boards, worn, gilt bands on spine, gilt title. Engraved title, general map of England and Wales (folding), 180 pp. of the roads and crossroads. Reference to the Maps (list), general map of England and Wales and 48 county maps, including 4 of Yorkshire, North and South Wales, South of Scotland and the Isle of Thanet. All in early wash colour. Some light spotting otherwise fine condition.
Stock number: 1816
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