Topographical and statistical description of the county of somerset, containing an account of its situation, extent, towns, roads, rivers, lakes, mines, minerals, fisheries, manufactures, trade, commerce, agriculture, fairs, markets, curiosities, antiquities, natural history, civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions, &c. [electronic resource] : To which is prefixed, a copious travelling index; exhibiting, at one view, the direct and pricipal cross roads, inns and distance of stages, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats. Forming a complete county itinerary. The whole interpersed with a variety of information, entertaining to the general reader; highly beneficial to the agriculturist, trader, and manufacturer; and particularly interesting to the traveller, speculatist, antiquarian, and to every inhabitant of the county. By George Alexander Cooke, editor of the Universal System of Geography. Illustrated with a map of the county.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooke, George Alexander, fl. 1800.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Somerset (England)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Somerset (England).

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191,[1]p. ) ill,map ;

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Paternoster Row by Brimmer and Co. upper Mary-le-bone Street, and sold by all the booksellers in the United Kingdom, [1800?]

Notes:

Issued as one in a series of guides to the counties of England and Scotland.

Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

Cox, E. "Reference guide to the literature of travel"., III, p.154

English Short Title Catalog, N46910.

OCLC:

508226451