Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improv'd
Subtitle: being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's Actual survey of all y direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales ...
By: by Eman: Bowen engraver
Contributors: Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767; Owen, John, of the Middle Temple
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Printed & sold by T. Bowles
Published: 1736
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Other titles: Ogilby's improv'd.
Notes: The title-page and 273 pages of maps, with explanatory text, etc., are engraved.

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. Later, beginning in 1719, various works containing reductions of the maps were issued, among them the "Britannia depicta" of which the first edition is dated 1720. Cf. Sir Herbert George Fordham, John Ogilby (1600-1676) his Britannia, and the British itineraries of the eighteenth century. London, 1925.