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:
Composite map: 98-99. The road from York to Chester
Publisher:
R. Wilkinson
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Composite Map
Obj Height cm:
16
Obj Width cm:
20
Scale 1:
None shown
Note:
Composite map, sheets 98-99.
Reference:
cf Fordham Studies p. 41; Tooley Landmarks, p. 36, 95.
Country:
England
Subject:
Roads
Full Title:
(Composite map)The road from York to Chester with a branch from Manchester to Derby. (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:
2634.108
Page No:
98-99
Series No:
108
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:
2634108.jp2
Authors:
Senex, John (1680-1740) ; Wilkinson, Robert; Ogilby, John (1600-1676)
Link To Source
Composite map: 98-99. The road from York to Chester
