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Dear Iain, We can help on two of your Manchester maps - details as follows: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:25:44 +0000 Iain Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am attempting to track library locations of some early > large scale town plans which do not appear to be held at the > BL. I'd be grateful of any info. on copies (or variants) > and their whereabouts. > > • Plan of Manchester & Salford with their environs... > Bancks & Co., 1831? 18 sheets? > Reproduced 1982? Our version is a single sheet folded into 36 panels. The shelfmark is: C17:70 Manchester d. 2 > > • A Plan of Manchester and Salford drawn from actual > survey... > W. Green, 1794? 18 sheets? Scale 60 yards to one inch. > Reproduced 1982. Our version consists of 9 sheets, bound into a large volume, which also contains maps of Lancashire (Yates / Faden, 1800); Liverpool (Perry, 1769); Lincolnshire (Armstrong, 1794, 1778); Middlesex (Rocque, 1757, 1754); and London (Faden, 1785). The shelfmark is: C17 a. 6 > > > Dr Iain C. Taylor > Visiting Research Prof. > John Moores U., Liverpool. I hope this lot helps. With best wishes, Nick Millea * PLEASE NOTE NEW TELEPHONE NUMBER * ________________________________________________________ Nick Millea Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG tel : 01865 287119 fax : 01865 277139 email : [log in to unmask] homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/ ________________________________________________________