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Ogilby, John Britannia, Volume the First. Or, an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales: By a Geographical and Historical Description of the Principal Roads Thereof.
London Printed By The Author at His House in White-Fryers 1675 First Edition Full Calf Very Good Folio
The first road atlas. "The greatest mapmaker of the seventeenth century was undoubtedly James Ogilby. ... [The road-map sections] contained details of all main roads, and distances were for the first time measured in statute miles of 1760 yards - James Burke, CONNECTIONS p.265." Ogilby distilled these strip road maps from a proposed 40,000 miles of roads (two thirds of which he had already traversed and recorded) down to the essential 2519 miles of travel from London. In addition to the "100 Royal Whole-Sheet Copper-plates [double-paged]" there is a two-page map of England and Wales, an engraved frontispiece by Hollar, and a title-page printed in red and black. His ambitious planned sequels were never published. This is the variant state with 28 pages of preliminaries, no dedication to Archbishop Gilbert, leaf D1-recto has the catchword: "132", and the plates are unnumbered. [ Wing O168, Kress S 1428, Chubb C I]. "In its comprehensiveness, its incorporation of new devices of computation and delineation, and in its opulence of paper, design and decoration, it immediately set a new standard for map-making in Englsnd - Van Eerde, JOHN OGILBY, p.137." Large paper copy, measuring 44.5cm by 28cm / 17.5in by 11in.: the map at p. 36 has several small spots on the verso (with some bleed thru), and at p. 110 has an inch splotch at the top of the margin; inked name on free endpaper, splitting at the top of the rear joint. Ex libris Lord Sir Nicholas Charles Gordon-Lennox (1931-2004), and George Folliott. All in all a remarkable, fresh copy of this rare book. 005842
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