Strip Maps. Marlborough to Bristol to Bath. Senex c1757

by Ogilby - Senex

18th century roads from London to Hounslow, Brantford, Colebrook, Maidenhead, Reading, Newbury, Hungerford, Ramsbury, Marlborough. Ogilby's surveyed Roads from Marlborough, Calne, Chippenham, Marshfield to Bristol; Bristol, Axbridge to Hunspil; Bath to Bristol are on reverse of this map (so you get two maps for the price of one).

These road maps are original copperplate engravings by John Senex c1757 after John Ogilby (with fine later hand-colour), for The Roads through England Delineated, or Ogilby’s Survey, Revised, Improved & 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 & 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 render'd of more general Use for TRAVELLERS. - Printed for John Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill London 1757.