The traveller's guide, or, A most exact description of the roads of England : being Mr. Ogilby's actual survey, and mensuration by the wheel, of the great roads from London to all the considerable cities and towns in England and Wales, together with the cross-roads from one city or eminent town to another : wherein is shewn the distance from place to place, and plain directions given to find the way, by setting down every town, village, river, brook, bridge, common, forest, wood, copse, heath, moor, &c. that occur in passing the roads : and for the better illustration thereof, there are added tables, wherein the names of the places with their distances are set down in a column, in so plain a manner, that a meer stranger may travel all over England without any other guide.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed by T. Ilive for Abel Swall, and sold by Tim. Child ..., and R. Knaplock ...,
1699.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | Advertisement: pages 254. The tables (pages 193-254) have special title page not included in the paging: Tables containing an exact delineation of the roads of England, according to Mr. Ogilby's actual survey ... London, 1699. An abridgment of the 1674 folio edition, the title of which is not known. Two versions of Ogilby's original work, both in folio, were issued in 1675, the "Britannia, volume the first", Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([8], 254 [id est 256] pages : illustrations, folded map. |