Main entry:

Baker, James (Topographer)

Title & Author:

The imperial guide : with picturesque plans of the great post roads, containing miniatures likenesses, engraved from real sketches of the cities, towns, villages, seas, islands, mountains, public edifices, and private buildings ... / by J. Baker.

Publication:

London : Printed by C. Whittingham ..., and sold by H.D. Symonds ..., White ..., Otridge ..., Richardson ... [and 4 others], 1802.

Description:

iv, 66, [36] pages : illustrations maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Maps are strip road maps, illustrated with vignettes of country houses and towns. Route is represented by a single line. cf. Smith, David. Victorian maps of the British Isles, p. 55, 87-88.
Added engraved t.p. with title that reads: Intirely new picturesque views and plans of the roads.
Page 1-27 also separately published with title: Multum in parvo: fashionable tours from London. London, 1802.

Subject:

Roads Great Britain Maps.
Routes Grande-Bretagne Cartes.
Roads.
Travel.
Great Britain Description and travel.
Grande-Bretagne Descriptions et voyages.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Maps.
Aquatints 1802.

Added entries:

Wright, J. H. (Printmaker)
Ross, F., engraver.
Bluck, John, engraver.
Chesham, Francis, 1749-1806, engraver.
Baker, James (Topographer), illustrator.
James, H., illustrator.
Ibbetson, Julius, 1759-1817, illustrator.
Stringer, Samuel, -1784, illustrator.
Anderson, William, 1757-1837, illustrator.

Intirely new picturesque views and plans of the roads

Holdings:

Location: Library main 131696
Call No.: ID:86-B7509
Status: Available