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Title page, printed in red and black, from an edition of the road book
Britannia, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title page
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. / Actually Admeasured and
Delineated in a Century of / Whole-Sheet Copper-Sculps. / ACCOMODATED / Witht eh
Ichnography of the several Cities and Capital Towns; / AND COMPLEATED / By an
Accurate Account of the more Remarkable Passages of Antiquity, / Together with a
Novel Discourse of the Present State. / By JOHN OGILBY Esq; / His MAJESTY's
Cosmographer, and Master of His MAJESTY's Revels in the / KINGDOM of IRELAND. /
LONDON, / Printed by the Author at his House in White-Fryers. M.DC.LXXV.
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Map Group -- Ogilby 1675 -- with Research Notes
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