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England exactly described : or A guide to travellers, in a compleat sett of maps of all the counties of England; being a map for each county, wherein every towne and village is particularly express'd with the names and limits of every hundred, and the roads and distances in measured miles according to Mr Ogilby's survey. Very usefull for gentlemen and travellers being made fit for the pockett

Archive Print Item: Large Whitaker Collection 48

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Title: England exactly described : or A guide to travellers, in a compleat sett of maps of all the counties of England; being a map for each county, wherein every towne and village is particularly express'd with the names and limits of every hundred, and the roads and distances in measured miles according to Mr Ogilby's survey. Very usefull for gentlemen and travellers being made fit for the pockett

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Classmark: Large Whitaker Collection 48

Creator(s): Taylor, Thomas (fl. 1670-1721)

Additional creator(s): Ogilby, John (1600-1676) (Other); Speed, John (1552?-1629) (Other); Blome, Richard (1705) (Other)

Related people: Ogilby, John; Speed, John; Blome, Richard

Publisher: Printed, coloured and sold by Tho. Taylor

Publication city: [London]

Date(s): [1716]

Language: English

Size and medium: [5] double leaves, 41 [i.e.42] double col. maps

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299130

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003986339705181

Description

Title and table on double leaves; title framed within colored border.


Second and third maps unnumbered; tenth map numbered "8 & 9".


"[Most of] the maps... are the same as those issued in 1681 in Speed's Maps epitomiz'd, etc."--Chubb, Thomas. The printed maps in the atlases of Great Britain and Ireland. Roads, in accordance with Ogilby's survey of 1675, have been added to the maps of the 1715 edition.--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection ... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 40.


Dedication (on 20 maps) are signed by Richard Blome.


Indexed in: Chubb CXXXVIa.

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