Kent Maps

26x30 cm

Roads to ROCHESTER, CANTERBURY, Margate, Ramsgate, Deal, Dover, Folkstone, Hythe, New Romney, Rye, Hastings & Eastbourne (by Tonbridge).
(ROADS MEASURED FROM LONDON BRIDGE) 
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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 Joseph Bye (1779-1817). Bye was apprenticed to Benjamin Baker and later worked in partnership with Edward Jones and Benjamin Smith trading as "Jones Smith & Bye" or "Jones Smth & Co." At Dover on 3rd November 1817, Joseph Bye and Benjamin Smith were convicted of forging Margate bank notes and sentenced to death. They were hanged November 27th 1817.

Light stain from pasted guard but a good example from the third edition corrected to 1809.