The post-chaise companion
Subtitle: or, Travellers directory through Ireland. ; Containing a new and accurate description of the direct and principal cross roads, with particulars of the noblemen and gentlemen's seats, cities, towns ... forming an historical & descriptive account of the kingdom. : To which is added, A dictionary, or Alphabetical tables. Shewing the distance of all the principal cities, boroughs, market and sea port towns, in Ireland from each other
Contributors: Esdall, William, -1795, engraver; Ford, James, active 1778-1812, engraver; Nixon, John, 1760-1818, illustrator; Graham, Henry, 1768-1808, illustrator
Publisher: Printed for the author, No.6, Dame Street
Published: 1786
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 534
Subjects: Distances; Early works to 1800; Guidebooks; Description and travel; Roads; History
Other titles: Poste chaise companion.; 1798 Irish Rebellion Collection (Boston Public Library); Irish History and Culture Collection (Boston Public Library)
Notes: Signatures: [A℗ø] b-d́þ e℗ø B-2Óþ

Engraved title; title verso blank; "List of subscribers", pages [ix]-xiv; Errata, leaf 2Ó; printed in two columns; map inset between leaves 2Ó and 2Ó hand-coloured.

Leaves B2, C2, N4, and O2 are cancels.

Dedication signed: W. Wilson.

ESTC t130690

Bradshaw Irish Coll. 1575

Text in English.

Catalogued 20161219 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy half-bound in white/tan/gray/brown marbled papers and brown calf over boards. Gilt panelled borders. Spine title, year of publication, and ornamental devices in gilt. Backing features raised joints. Free front endpaper features annotation and numerical marking in pencil scripts at head, and includes two inserted newspaper clippings. Printed on antique laid papers features vertical chainlines and horizontal wire lines.