Britannia : or, The Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, actually survey'd: with a geographical and historical description of the principal roads; explain'd by one hundred maps on copper-plates. With the ichonography, or draught of the several cities, chief towns, &c. And a view of the churches, houses, and places of note on the road. Also an account of the most remarkable passages of antiquity relating to them, and of their present state
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Type of record: Book
Title: Britannia : or, The Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, actually survey'd: with a geographical and historical description of the principal roads; explain'd by one hundred maps on copper-plates. With the ichonography, or draught of the several cities, chief towns, &c. And a view of the churches, houses, and places of note on the road. Also an account of the most remarkable passages of antiquity relating to them, and of their present state
Other titles: Itinerarium Angliæ
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 241 fol.
Creator(s): Ogilby, John (1600-1676)
Additional creator(s): Swall, Abel (Other); Morden, Robert (1703) (Other)
Related people: Swall, Abel; Morden, Robert
Publisher: Printed for Abel Swall... and Robert Morden
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1698
Language: English
Size and medium: 48 p., 100 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299624
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004053889705181
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Originally published title: Britannia, volume the first: or An illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales. London: Ogilby, 1675.
Text entitled "Itinerarium Angliæ or a book of the roads of England and Wales, &c." comprising a detailed description of each of the roads depicted in the strip maps.
Reprints of the one hundred original plates of 1675.
Strip maps.
Relief shown pictorially.
Indexed in: Chubb CIIa.
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