Roads by other Mapmakers

9x16 cm

TO LEEDS AND RIPON | by Bedford, Oakham, Nottingham and Sheffield.
Gardner sc.
From Hick's Hall 
The first part of the route extending to Sheffield. 
This road map was first published by Charles Smith & Son in  Smith's New Pocket Companion to the Roads of England and Wales and Part of Scotland. Engraved on forty-three Copper-Plates...London 1826. There were two further issues in 1827 and 1830.
Despite the obvious merits of an up-to-date pocket road book it seems to have had little success, and surviving examples are rare today. 
This map is the second state with roads to Bingham and Bolsworth added and is from the second or third issue.