Britannia depicta : or Ogilby improv'd; being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's Actual survey 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, with their respective distances in measured and computed miles. And to render this - work universally usefull & agreeable, beyond any of its kind are added in a clear & most compendious method 1, A full & particular description & account of all the cities, borough-towns, towns-corporate &c. their arms, antiquity, charters, privileges, trade, rarities, &c. with suitable remarks on all places of note drawn from the best historians and antiquaries by Ino. Owen of the Midd: Temple gent. 2, The arms of the peers of this realm who derive their titles from the places lying on, or near the roads 3, The arms of all ye bishopricks & deanaries, their foundation, extent, yearly-value, number of parishes &c. 4, The arms, & a succinct account of both universities & their respective colleges, their foundations fellowships &c. Lastly particular & correct maps of all ye counties of South Britain; with a - summary description of each county, its circumference, number of acres, boro' and market towns & parishes, air, soil, co⁻modities, manufactures & what each pays in ye 2. sh aid &c. The whole for its compendious variety & exactness, preferable to all other books of roads hitherto published or proposed; and calculated not only for the direction of the traveller as they are but the general use of the gentleman and tradesman /
Ogilby, John,1600-1676.
Hughes, Hugh Robert,former owner.StEdNL
Hornby, Charles Harry St. John,1867-1946,former owner.StEdNL
London : Printed for, & sold by Tho: Bowles print & map seller next ye. Chapter House in St. Pauls Church-Yard & E. Bowen engraver & print seller near ye Stairs in St. Katherines,
1720 [i.e. 1723].
The third issue.
Includes index.
Engraved throughout.
Plate shows "A scale of distances of all the principal towns in England & Wales ..."
"beyond any of its kind" and "as they are" appear in square brackets on title page.
ESTC
Provenance. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Hugh Robert Hughes of Kinmel H.M. Lieutenant of Flintshire.
Provenance. Bookplate on front pastedown: From the library of C.H. St John Hornby Shelley House, Chelsea.