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The Continuation Of Ye Road From London to Aberistwyth [Plate 2]

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A ribbon style road map running from Islip to Bramyard taken from the second plate of Ogilby's map showing the route from London to Aberistwyth. John Ogilby (1600-1676) had a variety of colourful careers (not invariably ending in disaster) before he embarked on a career as a surveyor and cartographer. He was a sometimes dancing master, poet, translator, historian, printer, publisher, Royal Cosmographer (1671), Master of the King's Revels in Ireland, founder manager and director of Dublin's first theatre and surveyor to the City of London, as well as a cartographer! Ogilby is perhaps best known for his series of road-maps entitled the "Britannia", which was the first road-atlas of any country, published in 1675. The atlas was an immediate success, being reprinted many times and was much copied by other map-makers. The atlas illustrates the major roads emanating from London with some of the more important cross roads. Each of the hundred sheets in the atlas covers a distance of about seventy miles, so some of the longer routes are on several sheets - for example London to Lands End is on four sheets. Each sheet is divided into strips representing parchment scrolls, with the map running continuously up the strips. Each map contains a wealth of information showing towns and villages, local landmarks, woods, bridges, castles and even gallows. Hills are shown diagrammatically to indicate the direction of the incline and their size. All this at a constant scale, for the first time in any series, of one inch to one mile.

region: Gloucestershire

mapmaker: J.Ogilby

place and date of publication: London 1675

medium and colour: Copperplate, Coloured
size in mm: 310 x 435

ref: 24980

Price: £ 260

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The Continuation Of Ye Road From London to Aberistwyth [Plate 2]

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