Warwickshire by Owen Bowen circa 1720 - Original Map

Taken from the Atlas 'Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improved' Published in 1720 by John Owen and Emanuel Bowen

A very decorative map along with the strip map on verso

Approx 12cm by 18cm

Trimmed close at upper right hand side and lower left hand side.

Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv’d;

being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby’s actual survey of all ye direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all ye cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &c. scituate on or near the roads, with their respective distances in measured and computed miles. [...] The whole for its compendious variety & exactness, preferable to all other books of roads hitherto published or proposed; and calculated not only for the direction of the traveller [as they are] but the general use of the gentleman and tradesman.