Town Plans

24x19 cm

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE & GATESHEAD
Engraved by J. Roper from a drawing by G. Cole, | to accompany the Beauties of England and Wales.
London; Published for the Proprietors, by Vernor & Hood, Poultry. Feb.^y 1.^st 1808. 

This series of maps, mostly drawn by George Cole and engraved by John Roper, were intended to accompany The Beauties of England and Wales. The maps were not actually published with this work but first issued in parts as a separate series between 1804 and 1810 and first appearing in atlas form in The British Atlas published by Vernor Hood & Sharpe (& nine other publishers) in 1810. 

Vignette of St. Nicholas Church Newcastle and Arms of Newcastle. Hand coloured.