Ogilby's and Morgan's Pocket-book of the roads, with their computed and measured distances, and the distinction of market and post-towns. To which are added, a table for the ready finding any road, city, or market-town, and it's distance from London: a sheet-map of England, fitted to bind with the book: and an exact account of all the fairs, both fix'd and moveable, in alphabetical order, shewing the days on which they are held. By William Morgan, cosmographer to their late Majesties. The ninth edition, corrected.
John Ogilby (1600-1676)
Category
Books
Date
1741
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3149195
Summary
Bibliographic description
[7], 43, 43, 44-94 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 16mo. Folded map detached, stub remains on guard where map was originally mounted as frontispiece. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front endpaper: "Wm. Atkinson 1743" (crossed-out) and "Davenport Talbot" [probably William Davenport-Talbot (1764-1800)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled sheepskin (rubbed); sewn on two tawed leather cords; four raised bands; double blind fillet border with roll pattern along spine-edge; blind roll pattern on board edges. Front pastedown loose from board and detached; rear pastedown loose from board.
Makers and roles
John Ogilby (1600-1676), author William Morgan (d. 1690), author James Moxon, engraver (printmaker)