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Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Title(s):
Mr. Ogilby's Pocket book of roads : with computed and measured distances and the distinction of market and post townes.
Edition:
The third impression, to which is added more roads and remarkable places omitted in the former, also a table for the ready, finding any road & the distance from London / by William Morgan ...
Published/Created:
London : Printed for the author and sold at his house next the Blew Boar in Ludgate Street ..., 1679.
Physical Description:
[13], 27 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 20 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G1808 O54 1679
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Classification:
Books
Notes:
British Art Center copy has map laid in.
Third impression of an abridgement of v.1 of the author's Britannia, first published in 1676 as Mr. Ogilby's Tables.
Map was issued separately, but intended to be bound in.--cf. "Aduertisement" (p. [3])
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), O177A
Subject Terms:
Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Great Britain -- Road maps.
Ogilby, John -- Publisher.
Roads -- Great Britain.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1679.
Contributors:
Morgan, William, -1690.
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