Description: The most detailed of the early maps of Bath and its environs. Merged from nine individual sections. Includes a key to Bath City centre and an alphabetical list of subscribers. 'An Actual Survey of the City of Bath, in the County of Somerset and of Five Miles Round'. Wherein are laid down all the Villages, Gentlemen's Seats, Farm Houses, Roads, High Ways, Rivers, Water Courses & all things Worthy of Observation.
Surveyed by Tho. Thorpe in the Year 1742. Published according to Act of Parliament 5th March 1743/1744 for the Proprietor Thomas Thorpe Land Surveyor and sold by him and Mr. Leake & Mr. Frederick Booksellers in Bath, Mr. Hitch Bookseller in Paternoster Row, London and the Printsellers. Engraved by James Cole in Hatton Garden. A list of subscribers is detailed in several sections.