COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Senex, John (1680-1740)
Author:
Wilkinson, Robert
Author:
Ogilby, John (1600-1676)
Date:
1780
Short Title:
48. The road from London to Norwich
Publisher:
R. Wilkinson
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
16
Obj Width cm:
20
Scale 1:
None shown
Note:
Engraved road strip map, showing street plan of larger towns, distances, buildings, bridges, topographic features, vegetation and rivers. Includes notes.
Reference:
cf Fordham Studies p. 41; Tooley Landmarks, p. 36, 95.
Country:
England
Subject:
Roads
Full Title:
The road from London to Norwich. (to accompany)The roads through England delineated, or, Ogilby's survey : revised, improved, and reduced to a size portable for the pocket by John Senex, F.R.S. ... Publish'd ... 1st May 1780, by R. Wilkinson ... Cornhill, London.
List No:
2634.055
Page No:
48
Series No:
55
Publication Author:
Senex, John (1680-1740)
Publication Author:
Wilkinson, Robert
Publication Author:
Ogilby, John (1600-1676)
Pub Date:
1780
Pub Title:
The roads through England delineated, or, Ogilby's survey : revised, improved, and reduced to a size portable for the pocket by John Senex, F.R.S. : being an actual survey of all the principal roads of England and Wales, distinctly laid down on one hundred and one copper plates on which are delineated all the cities, towns, villages, hills, rivers, brooks churches capital seats, and every place worthy of note, throughout each road ; with the addition of some roads newly drawn, which were omitted by Mr. Ogilby, and several necessary corrections made in others ; together with a great number of explanatory references, by which this edition of the roads is rendered of more general use for travellers. Publish'd ... 1st May 1780, by R. Wilkinson ... Cornhill, London.
Pub Reference:
cf Fordham Studies p. 41; Tooley Landmarks, p. 36, 95.
Pub Note:
This edition not listed by Fordham. A reissue in portable form of John Ogilby (1600-1676) "Britannia," first published in 1675, and by John Senex, London, in 1719; revised in 1757; published by R. Wilkinson in 1780. This is a likely model for Christopher Colles' "A Survey of the Roads of the United States" published in 1789. Originally published by Senex in 1719 as "An actual survey of all the principal roads of England and Wales". This road survey includes engraved title page, 8 pages of text, table of the cross roads and index to cities, towns, and villages, with 102 copper plate maps of England and Wales and all cities, towns and village, showing place names, churches, houses, rivers, windmills, parks, woods, forests and places of interest throughout each road. Relief is shown by hachures and pictorially. "Price 7s. 6d."
Pub List No:
2634.000
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Pub Maps:
102
Pub Height cm:
18
Pub Width cm:
23
Image No:
2634055.jp2
Authors:
Senex, John (1680-1740) ; Wilkinson, Robert; Ogilby, John (1600-1676)
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48. The road from London to Norwich
