An actual survey of all the principal roads of England and Wales : described by one hundred maps from copper plates. On which are delineated all the cities, towns, villages, churches, houses, and places of note throughout each road. As also directions to the curious traveller what is worth observing throughout his journey. The whole described in the most easy and intelligible manner (v.1-2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: An actual survey of all the principal roads of England and Wales : described by one hundred maps from copper plates. On which are delineated all the cities, towns, villages, churches, houses, and places of note throughout each road. As also directions to the curious traveller what is worth observing throughout his journey. The whole described in the most easy and intelligible manner (v.1-2)
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 242
Creator(s): Ogilby, John (1600-1676)
Additional creator(s): Senex, John (1740) (Other)
Related people: Senex, John
Publisher: Printed for & sold by J. Senex
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1719]
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 v (100 plates)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298359
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003868279705181
Description
One hundred "strip" maps of the roads of England and Wales from John Ogilby's Britannia of 1675, and engraved by John Senex. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 108.
Relief shown pictorially.
Title page of second volume in red and black and dated 1719.
Includes in each volume tables listing the cities and towns with the roads and plates to which they belong.
Vol. II: "Containing all the principal cross roads from London through England and Wales. In 46 plates."
Indexed in: ESTC T186556; Chubb CXXXVIII.
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