From Altea Antique Maps, London, United Kingdom
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London, c.1675, second state. Coloured. 330 x 445mm. This is the route through Middlesex, Surrey and Hampshire between London and Andover, taking in Hounslow, Staines and Basingstoke. With an allegorical title cartouche. Plate 25 from Ogilby's 'Britannia', the first national road-atlas of any country in Western Europe. It was composed of maps of seventy-three major roads and cross-roads, presented as trompe-l' il scrolls, each with a decorative title cartouche. It was the first English atlas on a uniform scale, at one inch to a mile, and the 'mile' Ogilby used became the national standard, the statute mile of 1,760 yards. Ogilby claimed that 26,600 miles of roads were surveyed in the course of preparing the atlas, on foot using the surveyor's wheel depicted in the cartouche, but only about 7,500 were actually depicted in print. It was only after the 'Britannia' that roads started being shown on county maps. Second state, with plate number bottom right. Seller Inventory # 15335
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Road from London to the Lands End .
Publication Date: 1675
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