Town Plans

23x18 cm

COVENTRY
Drawn and Engraved under the direction of E.W.Brayley.
Engraved by J. Roper from a drawing by Tho.^s Sharp | to accompany the Beauties of England & Wales.
London Published for the Proprietors by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Poultry, May.1.^st 1807.

Engraved plan of Coventry by John Roper (1771-1810) from a drawing by by Thomas Sharp. This series of plans were intended to accompany The Beauties of England and Wales but were not actually published with this work. First issued in parts as a separate series between 1804 and 1810. The British Atlas was published by Vernor Hood & Sharpe & nine other publishers in 1810 and included county maps, most drawn by George Cole and engraved by Roper. The town plans were issued only in the parts issues and The British Atlas but the county maps were re-issued in several publications including Dugdale's Curiosities of Great Britain until 1843 with their final appearance by lithographic transfer in Collins' railway and pedestrian atlas… published by Darton and Co. in 1858.
Good hand coloured example of the plan of Coventry with vignette of Coventry engraved by George Cooke (1781-1834) and the arms of the City and See of Coventry.