
Reading and its environs
By PRIDE, Thomas, 1790
A Topographical Map of the Town of Reading & the Country adjacent to the Extent of Ten Miles; Describing the Main and Cross Roads; also the Seats and Parks of the Nobility and Gentry; The Towns, Parishes, Hamlets, Tithings, Villages, Farms, Rivers, Brooks, Woods, Hills, Valleys, Heaths, Commons, and every remarkable Place within the Survey: Taken by Thos. Pride Land-Surveyor. To the Right Honourable William Lord Craven, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum, &c., &c. of the County of Berks, This Map is Inscribed by his Lordship’s most Obedient Servant Thomas Pride.
- Author: PRIDE, Thomas
- Publication place: London
- Publisher: Published as the Act directs, by T. Pride
- Publication date: July, 24th, 1790.
- Physical description: Second edition. Engraved map, on four sheets joined, dissected and mounted on linen, original hand-coloured in outline, subscribers coats-of-arms to left and right margin, housed in slipcase.
- Dimensions: 690 by 905mm (27.25 by 35.75 inches).
- Inventory reference: 12020
Notes
The first edition of the map lacked Hands Farm, Kings Mead and the Village of Woodcott. In the second edition apart from these inclusions numerous place names and road directions were enlarged and strengthened, woodland symbols were added and some of the coats-of-arms were ammended.
Thomas Pride (fl. 1758–1797) was a surveyor based in Bloomsbury in London.
Rare we are only able to trace three institutional examples: the British Library; The Royal Geographical Society; and Cambridge University Library.
Scale: 1.5 inches to one statute mile.
Bibliography
- Rodger 18.
- Rodger, E. (1972). The Large Scale County Maps of the British Isles 1596–1850: A Union List. Second edition. Oxford: Bodleian Library.