The traveller's guide: or, A most exact description of the roads of England
Subtitle: 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 ... 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.
Publisher: Printed by T. Ilive for Abel Swall, and sold by Tim. Child ... and R. Knaplock
Published: 1699
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Roads -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Notes: Signatures: A|p4|s, B-N|p8|s,O-X|p4|s.

Title within line border; headpiece.

The tables (p. 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, and mensuration by the wheel ... London, Printed for Tim. Child ... and Robert Knaplock ... 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," containing both text and maps, and the "Itinerarium Angliae" from which the main portion of the text is omitted. cf. Pref.; also Fordham, H.G. John Ogilby. London, 1925, p. 163-165.

From the Ledbury library, with armorial book-plate of Lord Biddulph.