Engraved throughout apart from the 5, [3] p. section, which is in letterpress, and comprises an index of cities and market towns.
Maps comprise county maps and strip maps of roads, with accompanying descriptions, including coats of arms.
Relief shown pictorially.
Strip road maps depicted at scale 1:126,720.
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 Angliæ" from which the main portion of the text is omitted. Later, beginning in 1719, various works containing reductions of the maps were issued, among them the "Britannia depicta" of which the first edition is dated 1720.--Sir Herbert George Fordham "John Ogilby ... his Britannia, ..." (Lond., 1925)
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Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
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