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COLLINS (GREENVILLE) Great Britain's Coasting Pilot... Being a New and Exact Survey of the Sea-Coast of England and Scotland, from the River of Thames to the Westward and Northward, Thomas Page, William and Fisher Mount, 1723
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COLLINS (GREENVILLE)
Great Britain's Coasting Pilot... Being a New and Exact Survey of the Sea-Coast of England and Scotland, from the River of Thames to the Westward and Northward, engraved additional pictorial title, letterpress title printed in red and black, 49 engraved map charts (4 folding on 2 sheets joined, 41 double-page, one folding, 3 single sheet), one engraved chart in the text, the double-page maps backed with laid paper (?at the time), a few with a couple of small wormholes near centre-fold, all mounted on stubs, panelled calf antique, red gilt morocco spine label [cf. Shirley, British Library M.COLL-1a-1d], folio (520 x 318mm.), Thomas Page, William and Fisher Mount, 1723
Footnotes
Greenville Collins' Coasting Pilot was both the first systematic survey of British coastal waters, and the first marine atlas of "British" waters printed in London from original surveys. The first edition was published in 1693, after which followed a thirty year interval before this 1723 edition published by Mount and Page, who were to print a further 20 editions over the following seventy years. The Scilly Isles chart is the issue with a descriptive letterpress text by Abraham Tovey.
Provenance: Wm. Courtenay, May 10th 1750, inscription cut out and pasted inside upper cover; Powderham Castle bookplate.