The Traveller's Guide: or, A Most Exact Description of the Roads of England. The traveller's guide or, a most exact description of the roads of England. Being Mr. Ogilby's actual survey, And Mensuration by the Wheel, of the great roads from London to all the Considerable cities and towns in England and Wales

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Second edition, [1712], in modern quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine, gilt titles., raised bands, black ink tooling. Internally, [8], 187, [5], [2], 193-254 pp, 1 map (folding), 1 large page header, light staining to top half throughout, page 95 listed as 65, modern'old' endpapers, the tables (p193-254) have their own t.p. not included in pagination, 1712. (203*125 mm). (ESTC T134021. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 04943.1). Tables containing an exact delineation of the roads of England according to Mr. Ogilby's actual survey, and mensuration by the wheel... London, W. Bray, 1712. An abridgment of the 1674 folio edition, the title of which is not known. 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. Title continues: Together with the Cross-Roads from one City or Eminent Town to another. Wherein is shewn the Distance from Place to Place, and plain Directions given to find the Way, by setting down every Town, Village, River, Brook, Bridge, Common, Forest, Wood, Copse, Heath, Moor, &c. that occur in Passing the Roads. And for the better illustration thereof, are added tables, wherein the Names of the Places, with their Distances, are set down in a Column, in so plain a manner, that meer Strangers may travel all over England without any other Guide