[24] The edition of 1800 of this popular compendium of knowledge bore on the title page: “A New Geographical, Historical and Commercial Grammar and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World. Illustrated with a Correct Set of Maps, Engraved from the Most Recent Observations and Draughts of Geographical Travellers. The Eighteenth Edition Corrected and Considerably enlarged. London. 1800.”

The work contained “Longitude, Latitude, Bearings and Distances of Principal Places from London” as one of its qualifications for use among mariners.