The travellers guide [cartographic material] : being the best mapp of the kingdom of England and principalaty [sic] of Wales. Wherein are delineated 3000 towns and villages more than in any mapp yet extent besides ye notations of bridges & rivers &c. To which is added ye direct and cross roads according to Mr. Ogilby's late survey
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Type of record: Book
Title: The travellers guide [cartographic material] : being the best mapp of the kingdom of England and principalaty [sic] of Wales. Wherein are delineated 3000 towns and villages more than in any mapp yet extent besides ye notations of bridges & rivers &c. To which is added ye direct and cross roads according to Mr. Ogilby's late survey
Other titles: Map of the kingdom of England and principality of Wales
Classmark: Large Whitaker Collection 355
Creator(s): Lea, Philip (fl. 1683-1700)
Additional creator(s): Saxton, Christopher (1542-) (Other); Nicholls, Sutton (Other)
Related people: Saxton, Christopher; Nicholls, Sutton
Publisher: Sold by Phillip Lea
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1687]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 map
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299322
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004007279705181
Description
A reprint by Philip Lea of a general map of England and Wales which was originally issued by Saxton in 1583. This reprint shows roads more or less according to Ogilby, a number of additional place-names, a new title (in English, the original one was in Latin), a re-drawn Isle of Man (which Saxton had never visited), a dedication to Peter (Mews) Lord Bishop of Winchester in the place of the arms of Thomas Seckford (Saxton's patron), and more particularly, the replacement of the illustrations of Elizabethan shipping by some more in keeping with the late Stuart period.--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 126.
The Bodleian Library's example was compiled as a travelling atlas with only the essential sheets being included; Yale's copy is similarly compiled, suggesting this was a standard form of issue.
Engraved by Sutton Nicholls.
Shows boundaries, rivers, roads, woods, fens and settlements; sea decorated with ships and monsters.
Relief shown pictorially.
London meridian.
Map of the kingdom of England and principality of Wales.
Additional description
Complete copy, divided into 20 sheets and bound in a volume 30 x 25 cm
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