Cornwall Maps

26x30 cm

Completion of the Road to the Lands End with roads to Dartmouth, (7) Plymouth, Fowey, Falmouth, Padstow, Biddeford and Barnstaple.
(ROADS MEASURED FROM HYDE PARK CORNER) 
Engraved by E. Jones.
Published 12.^th Feb.^y1806, by LAURIE & WHITTLE, N.^o53 Fleet Street London.

Prepared by Nathaniel Coltman for publication in Laurie and Whittle's New Travellers Comapnion...in England Wales and Scotland...London, Laurie & Whittle, 1806.

Engraved by Edward Jones (fl. 1799-1818). Litte is known about his early life but in partnership with Benjamin Smith he traded as "Jones & Smith" or "Smith & Jones" from 1799-1801 and with Joseph Bye as "Jones Smith & Bye" or "Jones Smith & Co." He was imprisoned in the Kings Bench for debt in July 1806. Both his partners were convicted and sentenced to death for forging bank notes on 3rd November 1817 and were hanged on 27th November 1817.

Light stain from pasted guard but a good example from the third edition (with coastlines added) corrected to 1809.