Jefferys, Thomas

Yorkshire's roads, towns and coast take pride of place among these maps by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to George III. Jeffer...

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Yorkshire's roads, towns and coast take pride of place among these maps by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to George III. Jefferys (c.1719–1771) worked in London as an engraver, cartographer and publisher, and the collection includes detailed sections of his county survey of Yorkshire, with plans of York, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Scarborough and Ripon and wide coverage of the Dales, the North York Moors and the coast towards Flamborough. His business ranged much further, and other sheets reach the Caribbean, the Baltic, the East Indies and the fortresses of Europe, alongside smaller magazine maps and scientific diagrams. Some impressions were issued after his death, as his plates continued in use.

Yorkshire's roads, towns and coast take pride of place among these maps by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to George III. Jefferys (c.1719–1771) worked in London as an engraver, cartographer and publisher, and the collection includes detailed sections of his county survey of Yorkshire, with plans of York, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Scarborough and Ripon and wide coverage of the Dales, the North York Moors and the coast towards Flamborough. His business ranged much further, and other sheets reach the Caribbean, the Baltic, the East Indies and the fortresses of Europe, alongside smaller magazine maps and scientific diagrams. Some impressions were issued after his death, as his plates continued in use.

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