Ogilby, John.

Volume 1 (all published), first edition, third issue, with the plate numbers added to the road map sheets, folio (410 x 255mm.), engraved additional pictorial title, printed title in red and black, double-page engraved map of England and Wales, and 100 double-page engraved road maps, nineteenth-century calf gilt with Botfield arms on sides, plate 88 loosely inserted from another copy

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A tall copy of the first national road-atlas of any country in Western Europe and a landmark in the mapping of England and Wales.

Ogilby’s Britannia is the result of an outstanding, and completely original national survey, measuring the principal roads of England and Wales on the uniform scale of one inch to a mile (a first in the mapping of England). The survey shows a level of detail for the countryside along the roads not matched until the Ordnance Survey, and thus forms a very important (albeit limited) record of the face of England and Wales in the seventeenth century. The cartography was quickly pirated onto county maps of the period and, once Ogilby’s copyright expired, four different publishers attempted pocket editions to bring the information to a wider audience, without matching the quality of Ogilby’s original. Ogilby’s scroll format to depict the roads remains in use for road maps to this day.