A general itinerary of England and Wales, with part of Scotland; containing all the direct, and principal cross roads to every city and market town, with the market days, the names of the inns which supply post horses, ... Arranged on a new plan, by which every information is given to travellers, ... With three copious indexes. I. of the roads from London to the cities and market towns; ... II. Of upwards of 6000 villages, &c. ... III. Of country seats, ... The whole compiled and arranged by David Ogilvy, jun.
David Ogilvy
Category
Books
Date
1804
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3242026
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii,[81]p.,594 columns,[55]p., [1] folded leaf of plates : col. map ; 8vo. Loose insert: scrap paper marker (col.18), Pencil annotated figures (col.203-4 and rear pastedown). Provenance: nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Oswald Mosley Esq. Rolleston Hall motto "Mos legem regit" [probably Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Bt of Ancoats (1785-1871)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half sprinkled calf, with marbled paper on boards; double gilt fillets on spine; gold lettered black spine label: Ogilvy's Roads.
Makers and roles
David Ogilvy