An edition of Britannia depicta (1720)

Britannia depicta

or, Ogilby improv'd; being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's Actualsurvey of all ye direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all ye cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &c scituate on or near the roads ... And to render this work universally usefull & agreeable ... are added ... 1. A full & particular description & account of all the cities, borough-towns, towns-corporate &c their arms ... &c with suitable remarks on all places of note drawn from the best historians and antiquaries

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An edition of Britannia depicta (1720)

Britannia depicta

or, Ogilby improv'd; being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's Actualsurvey of all ye direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all ye cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &c scituate on or near the roads ... And to render this work universally usefull & agreeable ... are added ... 1. A full & particular description & account of all the cities, borough-towns, towns-corporate &c their arms ... &c with suitable remarks on all places of note drawn from the best historians and antiquaries

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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 te maps were issued, among them the "Britannia depicta" of which the first edition is dated 1720. cf. Sir Herbert George Fordham. John Ogilby (1600-1676) his Britannia, and the British itineraries of the eighteenth.

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