The traveller's guide: or, a most exact description of the roads of England. Being Mr. Ogilby's actual survey, and mensuration by the wheel, of the great roads from London to all the considerable cities and towns in England and Wales, together with the cross-roads from one city or eminent town to another. Wherein is shewn the distance from place to place, and plain directions given to find the way, by setting down every town, village, river, brook, bridge, common, forest, wood, copse, heath, moor, &c. that occur in passing the roads. And for the better illustration thereof, there are added tables, wherein the names of the places with their distances are set down in a column, in so plain a manner, that a meer stranger may travel all over England without any other guide.

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  • The traveller's guide: or, a most exact description of the roads of England. Being Mr. Ogilby's actual survey, and mensuration by the wheel, of the great roads from London to all the considerable cities and towns in England and Wales, together with the cross-roads from one city or eminent town to another. Wherein is shewn the distance from place to place, and plain directions given to find the way, by setting down every town, village, river, brook, bridge, common, forest, wood, copse, heath, moor, &c. that occur in passing the roads. And for the better illustration thereof, there are added tables, wherein the names of the places with their distances are set down in a column, in so plain a manner, that a meer stranger may travel all over England without any other guide.
  • Most exact description of the roads of England
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Imprint
London: printed by T. Ilive for Abel Swall, and sold by Tim. Child at the White-Hart, and R. Knaplock at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1699.
Publication year
1699-1699
ESTC No.
R3184
Grub Street ID
114595
Description
[8], 187, [7], 193-254 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map, tables ; 8⁰
Note
"Tables containing an exact delineation of the roads of England, according to Mr. Ogilby's actual survey" has separate dated title page on leaf O1r; pagination begins with p. 193 on leaf O2r.

An abridgment of the 1674 folio edition, the title of which is not known. 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. cf. Pref.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), O184