Early England roads. Oxford to Salisbury and Poole c1757.

by Ogilby - Senex

Antique Maps, Senex after Ogilby. from Oxford to Poole via Abington, Harwell, Farnborough, Great Shelford, Hungerford, Tudworth, Ford, Salisbury, Cranborn, Winborn Minster and Poole. On the reverse (the previous listed map) is from Oxford to Kidlington, Banbury, Coventry, Nuneaton and Derby in Darbyshire. So you purchase both of these two lovely strip maps for the price of this one.

These road maps are original copperplate engravings by John Senex 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.

Approximate size of this map is 17 x 22cm (6 x 8.5 inches).