1868 The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Dictionary of the British Islands

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Rebound, Uncommon

The first edition of the National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland published by Virtue in three volumes. 

A topographical dictionary of the British Islands, compiled from the latest and best sources at the time, and illustrated with a complete county atlas, as well as numerous coloured maps. Collated. 

In alphabetical order, with volume one comprising a list from Abbas Combe to Eyworth, with the physical map of Great Britain, and a map showing the population, maps of Aberdeen, England and Wales, inland navigation map of England and Wales, counties of Argyle and Brute, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Connaught, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Dumfries, Durham, the counties of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, and Haddington, and Essex.

Volume two with Faccombe to Myton-Upon-Swale with maps of Scotland, South Wales, Gloucestershire, the Channel Islands, Hampshire, the outer Hebrides, the counties of Southerland and Caithness, Hertfordshire, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, the counties of Inverness, Ross, and Cromarty, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Leinster, Lincolnshire, Isle of Man, Middlesex, Monmouthshire, and Munster.

Volume three from Naas to Zouch Mill, with maps of Ireland, the North Atlantic and its coasts, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, the Orkney and Shetland Islands, Oxfordshire, the counties of Perth, Forfar, Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan, the counties of Roxburgh, Berwick, Selkirk, and Peebles, Rutland, Shropshire, Somersetshire, Staffordshire, the counties of Stirling, Dumbarton, Renfrew and parts of Lanark and Ayr, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Ulster, Warwickshire, Westmoreland, the Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and Yorkshire (the north, west, and east ridings).

With one hundred and thirty one pages of Appendix to volume three containing a tabular view of the United Kingdom, summary of poor law returns, and digest of census returns for 1861. 

A complete and thorough set.