A superb rare plan of the city of Leeds surveyed by Charles Fowler. He had already produced a smaller plan for Baines’ History and Directory of Yorkshire’ c 1824. Fowler was a land surveyor and engineer. This is a fascinating glimpse of a rapidly expanding city whose population was rapidly approaching 150,000. This was issued just before the first railway, the Leeds and Selby opened in September 1834. A vignette upper right displays the Western Entrance to Leeds with the Court House. Below this is the extensive Reference to the map. Lower left is a reduced plan of the town taken from that of Thomas Jefferys published in 1767. Eden ‘Dictionary of Land Surveyor’s’.