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.
John Ogilby (1600-1676)
Category
Books
Date
1699
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3074243
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 187, [7], 193-254 p., [1] folded leaf of plates :. map, tables ;. 8vo. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full panelled calf, sewn onto five raised bands. Remnant of lozenge-shaped label at head of spine. Red-sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
John Ogilby (1600-1676)