1968 A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles Round Manchester

Description

Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The UK edition of this facsimile. Originally published in 1795. 

With the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. 

This work provides a detailed account of the region surrounding Manchester in the late 18th century, describing the settlements, waterways, commerce, manufacturers and surrounding countryside of areas including Lancashire, Derbyshire and Cheshire. 

Collated, complete with reproductions of the seventy-three engraved plates, including a folding plan and folding map kept in a pocket to the rear endpaper. 

Written by John Aikin, an English medical doctor and surgeon, who later in life devoted himself wholly to biographical and periodical writing.