An actual survey of all the principal roads of England and Wales : described by one hundred maps from copper plates on which are delineated all the cities, towns, villages, churches, houses and places of note throughout each road : as also directions to the curious traveller what is worth observing throughout his journey : the whole described in the most easy and intelligible manner / First perform'd and publish'd by John Ogilby, Esq; and now proved, very much corrected, and made portable by John Senex ; in two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.

Contributor:

Senex, John, -1740.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early maps.

Atlases--Great Britain.

Atlases.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Maps, Early.

Roads--Great Britain--Maps.

Roads.

Genre:

Maps.

Penn Provenance:

Constable, William, 1721-1791 (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

1 atlas (2 volumes (8 unnumbered pages, 54 leaves of plates; 4 unnumbered pages, 55-100 leaves of plates)) : 100 maps ; 21x26 cm

Scale [ca. 1 : 126,720. 1 in. to 2 miles]

Other Title:

Itinerarium Angliae.

Book of roads wherein are contain'd the principal road-ways of England and Wales.

Cartographic Data:

Scale [ca. 1 : 126,720. 1 in. to 2 miles]

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for and sold by J. Senex, at the Globe in Salisbury Court, [1719]

Notes:

Road maps arranged in segmented scrolls, 6 or 7 to a page, on 100 engraved plates.

Relief and points of interest shown pictorially.

"I. Senex sculpt."--plate 25.

A revision of Itinerarium Angliae, or A book of roads ... of England and ... Wales / John Ogilby and W. Morgan. London, 1675.

Imprint in v. 2 gives publication date 1719.

Gathered in 2s with vertical chain lines.

Includes indexes of place names (1 at the beginning of each vol.).

Local Notes:

RBC copy has armorial bookplate of Wm. Constable Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.

2 v. bound in 1.

Cited in:

ESTC T186556

OCLC:

13603557