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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Title(s):
The roads through England delineated, or, Ogilby's survey / revised, improved, and reduced to a size portable for the pocket by John Senex ; being an actual survey of all the principal roads of England and Wales, distinctly laid down on one hundred and one copper plates on which are delineated all the cities, towns, villages, hills, rivers, brooks, churches, capital seats, and every place worthy of note throughout each road ; with the addition of some roads newly drawn, which were omitted by Mr. Ogilby ...
Published/Created:
London : Printed for John Bowles and Son, 1757.
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([10], [1], 101 p.) : 102 maps ; 19 x 23 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G1808 O6 1757
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:63,360]
Notes:
In folded leather case.
Engraved t.p.
Maps are in columns.
"A general view of Ogilby's direct and principal cross roads" (map): recto of first numbered page.
Fordham, H.G. "John Ogilby." T̲h̲e̲ L̲i̲b̲r̲a̲r̲y̲, 4th ser., v. 6 (1925), p. 174
Subject Terms:
Bowles, John, 1701–1779 -- Publisher.
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1757.
Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Roads -- Great Britain.
Contributors:
Senex, John, -1740.
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