Map Notes -- GRAY1.txt

	Map Notes

Gray 1824	NOTES from GRAY'S BOOK OF ROADS, 1824
FA2000.62	These notes are made from a road book, Gray's Book of Roads, by George Carrington Gray, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Row, London, 1824. The copy studied is in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, item HMCMS:FA2000.62.
	Remember that the notes concentrate on Hampshire, and ignore much else.
	map type: HantsMap & Gray 1824
	In the transcriptions:-
	[a] is used for an asterisk;
	[s] is used to show the 'section' character;
	[b] is used for greek character beta.
	The 'arch' over or under milages described and used by Gray is ignored - you can see how these 'local distances', labelled 'L.D.', work without them.
	Note that Gray uses square brackets to mark variations, branches, etc in his itineraries, in those transcriptions these brackets are not the usual sign for uncertainty of transcription.
	TITLE
	The spine reads:-
	GRAY'S / ROADS
	The book size is:-
	12.5x15cm
	The book is bound with two title pages. The first title page has an illustration of two horsemen paying their toll at a turnpike gate. The engraving includes, besides the tiny tollhouse, a milestone, a notice board of tolls, and a pedestrian turnstile:-
	GRAY'S BOOK OF ROADS. / On an entirely New Plan. / PRICE SEVEN SHILLINGS BOUND; / OR, WITH A SERIES OF MAPS, FORMING A COMPLETE COUNTY ATLAS, / TWELVE SHILLINGS BOUND.
	This copy has a complete set of maps bound in.
	Immediately after the first title page there are two pages advertising other works from the publisher.
	The second title page:-
	GRAY'S NEW BOOK OF ROADS. / THE / TOURIST AND TRAVELLER'S / GUIDE TO THE ROADS / OF / ENGLAND AND WALES, AND PART OF SCOTLAND, / ON AN ENTIRELY NEW PLAN, WHEREBY / THE DIFFERENT LINES OF ROUTE LEADING TO ANY REQUIRED POINT OF / DISTANCE ARE BROUGHT UNDER NOTICE AT ONE REFERENCE, / AND THE VARIATIONS SHEWN IN THE MARGIN: / THE GREAT ROADS, / EACH DISTINCTLY GIVEN, IN A CONTINUOUS LINE, FROM ONE EXTREME POINT TO / ANOTHER, AND THE / CROSS ROADS / SO ARRANGED THAT THE ROUTE FROM ANY ONE POINT OF THE KINGDOM TO ANOTHER MAY BE / TRACED WITH THE GREATEST FACILITY: / WITH A VERY COPIOUS GENERAL INDEX, / AND SEPARATE LOCAL INDICES TO THE PRINCIPAL TOWNS AND WATERING PLACES: / FORMING, ALTOGETHER, A COMPREHENSIVE, USEFUL, AND PERSPICUOUS / ITINERARY. / BY GEORGE CARRINGTON GRAY. / LONDON: / PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, JONES & CO. PATERNOSTER ROW. / 1824.
	On the back of the title page is, inter alia, the printer's colophon:-
	J. G. Barnard, Skinner Street, London.

	map type Gray 1824 -- menu of resources

	general map -- GRA1EW.txt
	preface 1 -- GRA1PRE1.txt
	preface 2 -- GRA1PRE2.txt
	preface 3 -- GRA1PRE3.txt
	roads 1 -- GRA1ROD1.txt
	roads 2 -- GRA1ROD2.txt
	roads 3 -- GRA1ROD3.txt
	index -- GRA1NDX.txt
	source item -- HMCMS:FA2000.62 -- road book

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	HantsMap Notes -- GRAY1.txt MN: 5.12.2000 last edit: 10.12.2000

NOTES from GRAY'S BOOK OF ROADS, 1824

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