APPENDIX I - Baines 1

Directory of YORKSHIRE 1822-1823

The following maps were contained in an extra wallet / booklet

Yorkshire - Title page volume 1 at University of Leicester SC

Full title: History, Directory & Gazetteer, of the county of York : with select lists of the merchants & traders of London, and the principal commercial and manufacturing towns of England; and a variety of other commercial information: also a copious list of the seats of the nobility and gentry of Yorkshire / by Edward Baines ; the directory department by W. Parson.

Published: Leeds : Printed and published by Edward Baines, at the Leeds Mercury Office and sold by Hurst and Robinson ... London and all other booksellers, 1822-1823.

The Maps

1.     Map of The West Riding and Ainsty of the County of York Engraved for the Directory Published By Edward Baines. Leeds. Alfred Smith 1822 Land Surveyor. Below the title Engraved by J H Franks, 3, Harrington Street, Liverpool[1]. 40 x 52 cm.

2.     Map of The East and North Ridings of the County of York Including the latest Improvements Engraved for the History and Directory of Yorkshire Published By Edward Baines. Leeds. 1822 Chas Fowler Land Surveyor, Leeds. Below the bottom border Engraved by J H Franks, 3, Harrington Street, Liverpool. 40 x 51 cm.

3.     Kingston upon Hull with the Environs. Artist´s signature below border left: Drawn by Alfred Smith Land Surveyor Little Preston near Leeds[2]. Engraver´s signature below border right: Neele & Son 352 Strand. Imprint above top border: Engraved for the History and Directory of Yorkshire Published By Edwd Baines. Leeds. 1823. 24.3 x 28.6 cm.

4.     Plan of Sheffield by Alfred Smith Engraved for the History and Directory of Yorkshire Published By Edward Baines. Leeds. 1822. Alfred Smith Land Surveyor Little Preston near Leeds. Engraver´s signature below right: Engraved by J H Franks, 3, Harrington Street, Liverpool. 28.5 x 24.5 cm.

5.     Plan of the Town of Leeds with the recent Improvements[3]. Surveyed in 1821 by Chas. Fowler, Leeds. Engraver´s signature below right: Neele & Son 352 Strand. 30 x 25 cm.

6.     York. Imprint above map: Engraved for the Yorkshire Directory, Published by Edward Baines, Leeds, 1822. Engraver´s signature below right: Neele & Son Sculp 352 Strand. Artist´s signature below border left: Alfred Smith, Land Surveyor, Little Preston, near Leeds. 26 x 30 cm.

With sheet 1: A Table of the Reciprocal Distances of the Principal Towns of England and Wales. This also includes Mail Coach Routes. Imprint within top title: To Accompany the History and Directory of Yorkshire, Published By Edwd Baines. Leeds. 1823.

With sheet 2: A Table of Computed Distances of the Towns of Yorkshire from the Metropolis, and from each other. This has List of Yorkshire Fairs at bottom. In an inset headed Yorkshire:  – Compiled under the Superintendence of W Parson by the Agents of the Yorkshire Directory.

Copies are available as follows.

Hathi Trust Digital Library – Harvard and University of California copies are freely available online, but there is no mention of the maps.

The following institutes list maps and tables in the JISC catalogue entry and are thought to also have some or all of the maps contained in the separate booklet.

University of Manchester Library Imperfect; comprises only the following plates from vol. 1: Map of the West Riding & Ainsty; Plan of Leeds; Distance table of all the towns of Yorkshire.

University of Reading Library

Victoria and Albert Museum libraries

Wellcome Library

The following institutes have copies of the work, listed only as 2 vols.

Chetham's Library

University of Leicester Library

University of Oxford Libraries

York Minster

William White´s Directories

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1. Early Years - William White and Edward Baines
2. William White & Co.
3. Rivalry and Family Feud
4. Francis White
5. Maps
6. William White Co. - Later Years

Appendix I. Description of the maps in the Directory of Yorkshire (Baines 1);
Appendix II. Description of the maps in the Directory of Lancashire (Baines 2);

Appendix III. Description of the maps in the Directory of Durham and Northumberland (White 1 - William White and William Parson).

White 2 - Cumberland & Westmorland 

White 3 - Nottinghamshire

White 4 - Staffordshire

White 5 - Norfolk

White 6 - Yorkshire (later editions)

White 7 - Lincoln

White 8 - Suffolk

White 9 - Leicestershire with Rutland

White 10 - Essex

White 11 - Devonshire

White 12 - Hampshire with Isle of Wight

White´s city directories

[1] Engraver´s signature possibly deleted for the second edition (1831).

[2] Alfred Smith seems to have been a local surveyor. His name appears in Leeds Mercury and Leeds Intelligencer between 1820 and 1827 in connection with estate sales.

[3] Below map is a Reference to Public Buildings including lists of Churches, Chapels, Charitable Buildings, Law, Commercial and other Buildings (total of 54).