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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Type of record: Book
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
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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