The Road from Bristol to Banbury in Oxfordshire c1757.

$195.00

Ogilby, England road surveys. Senex antique map: Bristol through Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire – Chipping Sodbury, Tetbury, Cirencester, Burford to Banbury. On the reverse: London road to Yarmouth from Colchester through Stratford, Ipswich, Woodbridge, Saxmundham, Blyborough, Brampton, Stanfield, Beckles, Fritton… (Both finely hand-coloured, both this and previous map, for this price.) 

These road maps are original copperplate engravings by John Senex c1757 after John Ogilby's surveys – 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).