JOHN CARY, ENGRAVER, MAP, CHART AND PRINT- SELLER. A Bibliography
by Sir Herbert George Fordham. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)
JOHN CARY, who was born in 1754 and died in 1835, was the
most prominent map-maker of his time. He produced some six hundred maps and plans, including especially the " New Itinerary—an Accurate Delineation of the Main Roads," which he produced in 1798 from an actual survey made by him for the Post Office. Sir Herbert Fordham's annotated cata- logue of Cary's maps is a scholarly piece of work, which illus- trates the history of English roads and canals. Cary died just too soon to incorporate railways in his maps, but one of his plans, of uncertain date, refers to " A Dram Road "—not a
tram road—or railway from Bedwellty to Cardiff. Cary's road maps remind us once again that English roads were being
improved out of all knowledge just when the railway engineer appeared to make the road obsolete. Now that the road is again in favour, Cary's maps have something more than a historic interest.
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