Town Plans

19x24 cm

WORCESTER
Drawn and Engraved under the direction of E.W. Brayley.
Engraved by J. Roper from a drawing by Geo Young, | to accompany the Beauties of England and Wales.
London; Published for the Proprietors, by Vernor & Hood, Poultry. Dec.^r 1.^st1804.

This series of maps, mostly drawn by George Cole (this plan by George Young) 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. 

Fine hand coloured example of the town plan of Worcester with the arms of the See and City of Worcester and vignette of Worcester Cathedral.

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