Paterson S Roads Being An Entirely Original And Accurate Description Of All The Direct And Principal Cross Roads In England And Wales

Excerpt from Paterson's Roads: Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, With Part of the Roads of Scotland The increasing demand for this work, and general estimation in which it is held, afford a gratifying proof to the Editor that his endeavours to render it an agreeable travelling companion have proved successful; and he trusts may add, that, allowing for the manifold subjects it embraces, to the fidelity and general accuracy that have hitherto characterized its pages, he may reasonably assign the very extensive patronage with which, while under his superintend ence, it has been so highly honoured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"It contains 246 original titles, of which 24 are of foreign roadbooks of and including, British roads, and principally published abroad ... the Scottish roadbooks ranging from 1681 to 1840 ... of Welsh road-books there appear to be only about 20 ..."--P. xv.