Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd : being a correct coppy [sic.] of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all ye direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: wherein are exactly delineated & engraved, all ye cities, towns, villages, churches, seats, &c
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Type of record: Book
Title: Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd : being a correct coppy [sic.] of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all ye direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: wherein are exactly delineated & engraved, all ye cities, towns, villages, churches, seats, &c
Classmark: YAS 0639
Creator(s): Ogilby, John (1600-1676)
Additional creator(s): Bowen, Emanuel (1767) (Other); Owen, John of the Middle Temple (Other)
Related people: Bowen, Emanuel; Owen, John
Publisher: Printed & sold by Tho: Bowles
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): 1736
Language: English
Size and medium: [2], 5, [3], 273, [1] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/487091
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003868399705181
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
Remainder of title: "... And to render this work universally useful & agreeable [beyond any of it's kind] are added in a clear and most compendious method 1, A full & particular description & account of all the cities,... by Ino. Owen ..."
Engraved throughout.
Two versions of Ogilby's original work, both in folio, were issued in 1675, the "Britannia, volume the first" containing both text and maps, and the "Itinerarium Angliæ" from which the main portion of the text is omitted. Later, beginning in 1719, various works containing reductions of the maps were issued, among them the "Britannia depicta" of which the first edition is dated 1720.--Sir Herbert George Fordham "John Ogilby... his Britannia, ..." (Lond., 1925).
Tables on first 8 pages.
The final page is blank.
Indexed in: ESTC N15583; Chubb CLIII.
Additional description
Inscribed: 'John Fielder Newbury 1797' on front pastedown, and 'Samuel Osborne' on title page
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