Colchester to Yarmouth and Bristol to Banbury. Senex c1757.

$195.00

Ogilby-surveyed England roads antique map by Senex c1757.

The Road from London in Yarmouth in Norfolk – through Essex and Suffolk: Colchester through Stratford, Ipswich, Woodbridge, Saxmundham, Blyborough, Beckles, Hadsco, to Yarmouth. On the reverse side are roads through Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, from Bristol through Chipping Sodbury, Tetbury, Cirencester, Burford to Banbury. (Both this map and next one, for this price.) 

These road maps are original copperplate engravings by John Senex c1757 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).