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  Title pages
First State Seventh State
Title page, first state Title page, seventh state
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A summary of the several states of the title page is given here. See the atlas publication details page for more information.

First state

See the atlas collation page and the image above for the full text.

Second state

Price Bound 5s. added.

Third state

The price added in the previous issue erased and Price in Sheets 5s. Bound 6s. added.

Fourth state

Colour'd 12s added to the previous prices and an advertisement for tracing paper also added.

Fifth state

The previous wording A Set of maps . . . changed to A New Set of maps . . . and the advertisement erased. Extra wording added at the bottom of the page to indicate that this was the Second Edition. Now printed for C. Hitch and W. H. Toms (previously Toms alone).

Sixth state

Sold by J. Clark, C. Hitch and W. H. Toms.

Seventh state

Sold by C. Hitch, W. Johnston and W. H. Toms. See the image above.
Dedication page
Dedication page
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The dedication page, with the coat of arms of Frederick, Prince of Wales was unchanged throughout the life of the atlas.

Prince Frederick, born in 1707, was the eldest son of George II and his wife Caroline of Ansbach. Frederick married Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha in 1736 and they had a son who was to become George III. Frederick died in 1751, apparently as a result of being hit by a cricket ball. His father was succeeded on his death in 1760 by Frederick's son.


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