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FA1999.23:-
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Road map, uncoloured engraving, scale about 50 miles to 1 inch, General View
of Ogilby's Direct and Principal Cross Roads, in England and Wales; and on the
other side a strip map, part of The Road from London to Aberystwyth; from a road
book by John Senex, 1719, edition printed for John Bowles and Son, The Black
Horse, Cornhill, London, after 1757.
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From Roads through England Delineated; ... Ogilby's survey revised, improved and
reduced to a size portable for the pocket.
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The map of England and Wales has numbers against each route referring to plate
numbers; it is an index map.
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Pl.1 from London; Uxbridge, Middlesex; High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; Tetsworth,
via Oxford to Islip, Oxfordshire.
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Note - the plate number is at top left and right, the map is double sided; the
general map has no number.
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map feature:-
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not coloured & title cartouche (florid) & compass rose (cardinal points,
fleur de lys for N and cross for E) & coast shaded & settlements &
roads (double line for direct, single line for cross roads) |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
A / General View of / Ogilby's / Direct & principal Cross / ROADS.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
THE ROAD from LONDON to ABERISTWITH / on the Sea Coast in CARDIGANSHIRE, ...
/ Containing from the head of Cornhill in London to ... / ....
-- title and table of distances |
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map feature:-
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title cartouche (plain box, sides curved to fit by scrolls of map) & north
point (simple cross marked with fleur de lys for N and cross for E) & road
distances (miles from Cornhill, London, dot in road, figure beside) & table
of distances & roads (continuous or dotted lines probably indicate fenced or
unfenced?) & settlements (differences in size and typeface of name are
indications of size) & streets (layout in some towns) & rivers &
mills & water mills & windmills & parks & woods & forests
& relief & hillocks (all one way up, ie not using a convention for up
and down) & county (dotted line boundary and comment as 'enter
Hampshire') |
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dimension:- |
wxh, sheet = 23.5x18cm |
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scale = 1 to 3200000 ? (approx) |
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scale = 1 to 150000 ? (approx) |
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Map Group -- Senex 1757 -- with Research Notes
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| MN: 9.11.2002 |
