Handkerchief of plate-printed cotton with Cruchley's map of England. In the top right-hand corner of the handkerchief is printed a wreath of flowers with the description 'CRUCHLEY'S New Travelling Map and Itinerary Comprising the whole of ENGLAND, WITH PART OF SCOTLAND AND IRELAND and a portion of France and the Netherlands shewing the Communication between LONDON AND PARIS'. Beneath this legend in ten different types of lettering is the date 1831, a scale for British Statute Miles and a note on the distances in figures marked on the roads between towns and on sea routes, and the latter is indicated on the map by dotted lines.

The map is printed in black from a very finely engraved plate. It shows Scotland as far north as Edinburgh, only the east coast of Ireland, and France as far south as Brest and Chartres and as far east as Lille.

At the foot of the map, in the border containing the numbers of the grid lines of latitude and longitude, is inscribed with 'ENGRAVED AND PUBLISHED BY CRUCHLEY, MAP SELLER, from Arrowsmith's 38 Ludgate Street, London'.