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OGILBY'S ROADS, TITLE and PREFACE PAGES
Transcription of the title page and preface text pages from Ogilby's Britannia, published 1675.
map type: HantsMap & Ogilby 1675

TITLE
the title page reads:-
BRITANNIA, / Volume the First: / OR, AN / ILLUSTRATION / OF THE / KINGDOM / OF / ENGLAND / AND / Dominion of Wales: / By a Geographical and Historical / DESCRIPTION / OF THE / Principal Roads thereof. / Actually Admeasured and Delineated in a Century of / Whole-Sheet Copper Sculps. / ACCOMODATED / With the Ichnography of the several Cities and Capital Towns; / AND COMPLEATED / By an Accurate Account of the more Remarkable Passages of Antiquity, / Together with a Novel Discourse of the Present State. / By JOHN OGILBY Esq; / His MAJESTY's Cosmographer, and Master of His MAJESTY's Revels in the / KINGDOM of IRELAND. / LONDON, / Printed by the Author at his House in White-Fryers. M.DC.LXXV.
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button preface 2 -- OGY3PRE2.txt
button preface 3 -- OGY3PRE3.txt
button preface 4 -- OGY3PRE4.txt
button preface 5 -- OGY3PRE5.txt
button preface 6 -- OGY3PRE6.txt
button preface 7 -- OGY3PRE7.txt
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HantsMap Notes -- OGILBY3.txt
MN: 13.6.1998
last edit: 26.8.1999