Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd : being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all [th]e direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: Wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all [th]e cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &. 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 it's 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 places lying on or near the roads 3. The arms of all [th]e 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 [th]e counties of South Britain; with a summary description of each county, its circumference, number of acres, borô & market towns & parishes, air, soil, com̄odities, manufactures & what each pays in [th]e ... 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 By Eman: Bowen engraver

Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd : being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all [th]e direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: Wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all [th]e cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &. 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 it's 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 places lying on or near the roads 3. The arms of all [th]e 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 [th]e counties of South Britain; with a summary description of each county, its circumference, number of acres, borô & market towns & parishes, air, soil, com̄odities, manufactures & what each pays in [th]e ... 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 By Eman: Bowen engraver.

Author/creator	Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767
Other author/creator	Owen, John, of the Middle Temple.
Other author/creator	Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767 engraver.
Other author/creator	Bowles, Thomas, 1694-1773, publisher.
Format	Electronic and Book
Edition	The fourth edition.
Publication Info	[London] : Printed & sold by Tho: Bowles print & map seller in St. Pauls Ch. yard, 1759.
Description	2 unnumbered pages, 5 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 273 pages, 1 unnumbered page : maps, tables ; 4⁰
Supplemental Content	Full text online
Subject(s)	Roads--Great Britain --Early works to 1800. Atlases--Great Britain England--Maps --Early works to 1800. Great Britain--Description and travel --Early works to 1800. England--Description and travel --Early works to 1800. Wales--Description and travel --Early works to 1800. England--Road maps --Early works to 1800. Wales--Road maps --Early works to 1800. England--Maps. Wales--Maps.

General note	Engraved throughout apart from the 5, [3] p. section, which is in letterpress, and comprises an index of cities and market towns.
General note	Maps comprise county maps and strip maps of roads, with accompanying descriptions, including coats of arms.
General note	Relief shown pictorially.
General note	Strip road maps depicted at scale 1:126,720.
General note	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 Angliæ" 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.--Sir Herbert George Fordham "John Ogilby ... his Britannia, ..." (Lond., 1925)
General note	The final page is blank.
General note	Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
References	English Short Title Catalog, T301222.
Reproduction note	Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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