An atlas and phrase book for the Grand Tour

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The Gentleman's Pocket Companion... [and] Three Dialogues in six European Languages...

TAYLOR, Thomas
London,
Printed and Sold by Thomas Taylor, at the Golden Lyon Overagainst Serjeants Inn in Fleetstreet,
1722
Two works in one vol., 8vo. (170 by 105mm), title, nine engraved folding maps with fine original colour, with 19 leaves of road tables, [with] title, 12ff., original boards, with gilt fillet border, rebacked.
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This work was popular with the English gentry throughout the eighteenth century as a useful guide when on 'The Grand Tour'.

The book contains nine maps: a general map of Europe, England and Wales, France, Spain and Portugal, Italy, Low Countries, Germany, Turkey, Denmark and Sweden; together with a list of roads, with distances between towns, to accompany the maps. At the back of the work is an eighteen century phrase book: 'Three Dialogues in six European Langua...

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BL Cartographic Items Maps C.27.b.7