Title / Subject: Road map running through part of Middlesex, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
Date: c.1724
Size: the sheet measures approximately 188mm x 132mm
Cartographer / Engraver: Emanuel Bowen
Description: An interesting and attractive, original, antique, double-sided strip road map from a c.1724 edition of John Owen & Emanuel Bowen's 'Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd'.
The sheet of hand-laid paper is printed on both sides. The copper-engraved strip maps (with accompanying information about the locations along the route and embellishments such as coats of arms) are pages 33 & 34 of 'Britannia Depicta'. They have significant detail of topography and place names with the main locations along the route as follows:
Page 33 - London, Brentford, Hounslow
Page 34 - Maidenhead, Henley, Dorchester, Abingdon
Provenance: 'Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd'
Condition: Good condition. Age toning/handling marks. Please study the photographs carefully to fully appreciate the condition.
Ref: #06002