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item:- Armitt Library :
A1170.1
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Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes,
Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles
to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G
Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley,
Keswick, Cumberland, 1823.
Tipped in as frontispiece to A Concise Description of the
English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 1st edn 1823.
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Otley 1818
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map feature:-
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folded & plain cartouche & north point &
magnetic deviation (26d W) & scale line & lat and
long scales & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers
& lakes & relief & hill hachuring & table of
heights & settlements & roads & canals
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inscription:-
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printed title cartouche, lower left
The District / of the / LAKES / By J. Otley / KESWICK
1818.
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inscription:-
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printed bottom left and right
2d. Edit. 1823 / Engraved by J. & G. Menzies, Edinr.
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inscription:-
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printed back cover of guide book
MAP OF THE LAKES. / The map which accompanies this work,
/ [has now ] for five ye[ ]he [test of] public / [ ]ng and
[h]as ever b[ ]en th[ ] / of the Publis[her] to render [ ]
worthy of the / [patrona]ge it has received, by making it
the / mo[st ]orrect delineationn of the district [ ] /
[Published.] / It [ co] / loured and fol[ded into] a case
for the poc[k]et. / [ ] T[ ] she[w ] and [p]o[sitio]n / [of
] of pla[ces]. / [ ]
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scale line:-
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10 miles = 61.7 mm
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wxh, map:-
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252x315mm
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scale:-
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1 to 260000 ? (1 to 260834 from scale line)
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