£400
Charles Smith’s New English Atlas, 1804, the first county atlas to be based on the Meridian of Greenwich. A subscribers’ edition containing extensive backing repairs by Roger Baynton-Williams, using acid-free paper, so that the maps themselves are preserved in presentable condition. Printed on Whatman paper, the finest available at the time. Rebound in leather by Frank Brown, bookbinder of Dorchester, Dorset
Provenance: From the collection of David Beaton, local historian, retired academic and author of Dorset Maps
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