Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Title:
Britannia, volume the first, or, An illustration of the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales : by a geographical and historical description of the principal roads thereof : actually admeasured and delineated in a century of whole-sheet copper-sculps : accomodated with the ichnography of the several cities and capital towns; and compleated by an accurate account of the more remarkable passages of antiquity, together with a novel discourse of the present state / by John Ogilby Esq. ...
Published / Created:
London : Printed by the author at his house in White-Fryers, MDCLXXV [1675]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([34], 200, [4] pages, [203] leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale 1:63,360
Notes:
The plates comprise: a frontispiece (engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar, after Francis Barlow); a map of England and Wales; and 100 strip maps. All of the maps are double plates.
Subject Terms:
Roads -- England -- Early works to 1800. | Roads -- Wales -- Early works to 1800. | Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | England -- Maps. | Wales -- Maps.
Form/Genre:
Atlases. | Strip maps. | Road maps.
Contributors:
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, engraver. | Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704, illustrator.