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[HOGG, Alexander (publ.)]
The New British Traveller;
Or, A Complete Modern Universal Display of Great-Britain And Ireland: Being A New, Complete, Accurate, And Extensive Tour Through England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isles of Man, Wight, Scilly, Hebrides, Jersey, Sark, Guernsey, Alderney, And other Islands adjoining to and dependent on the Crown of Great-Britain ... Being really the result of An actual and late General Survey, accurately made by a Society of Gentleman ... And including a valuable Collection of Landscapes, Views, County-Maps, &c. ...
First Edition. The title-page attributes the work to George Augustus Walpoole, with assistance from David Wynne Evans (Wales), Alexander Burnet (Scotland) and Robert Conway (Ireland), but the suspicion is that the publisher invented these names. Alexander Hogg was one of the first to publish cheap "Paternoster Row numbers", popular works issued in weekly parts, the more expensive of them illustrated with copper engravings. This work was available in 60 parts. A later edition was published under the title: "The new and complete English traveller" in 1794. The national maps are by Thomas Kitchin. Some of the county maps are signed as being engraved by T. Conder; in the later reissue, Conder's name is added to all but two of them.
Large folio (385 × 248 mm). Contemporary reversed calf, red morocco label, raised bands, covers with border in blind, red sprinkled edges. Engraved frontispiece by Thornton after Hamilton, 88 plates (mostly 2 views to a plate) and 23 maps (county maps mostly 4 to a plate), 2 folding. Spine polished smooth, edges just worn, tiny amount of worm affecting a few margins only, an excellent copy, fresh and clean.
