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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

Archive Print Item: Whitaker Collection 241 fol.

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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

Level: Item

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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