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Listing Template 2018 Home About Us View Feedback Contact Us 1675 Road Map LONDON to WEYMOUTH Basingstoke Dorchester Blandford by OGILBYDescription1675Large original antique engraved road map titled:'The Road from LONDON to WEYMOUTH com Dorset from London to Basingstoke com Hants in the Lands-end Road to Sutton to Stockbidg to Broughton to Dunketon to Cramborn to Blandford to Dorchester to Weymouth'A fine large formatoriginal Road Map by John Ogilby.Overall size of this Folio sizeprint is approx 41cm x 50cm with large margins, perfect for mounting framing.Excellent condition with central fold as issued.John Ogilby (1600-1676) is one of the most interesting of all British mapmakers, remarkable for the way that he dealt with successive adversities in his private life: having to work at an early age to pay off his father's debts, a dancer whose career ended with a dance injury, a theatre owner who saw the theatre destroyed in riots, along with all his possessions, and a litery published whose stock was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, but surviving, going on to become Cosmographer to King Charles II.Ogilby was born in Scotland, but moved to London, where he was apprenticed in the Merchant Taylors, freed by patrimony on 6th july 1629. After the early setbacks as a dancer and theatre owner, he established himself as a publisher in London, specialising in lavish classical translations, which he made himself, notably illustrated editions of Virgil. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, Ogilby repositioned himself as a publisher specialising in geographic and cartographic material. After the fire with step-grandson William morgan, Ogilby became a 'sworn viewer' of the lands within the City of London's property, and undertook a survey of the capital, which they later published, petitioning the Corporation of the City of London for financial assistance to fund the project.The survey was much delayed, but Ogilby and Morgan eventually produced two of the greatest seventeenth century surveys of London: a plan of the City of London appearing as A New and Accurate Map of the City of London, distinct from Westminster and Southwark published on 20 sheets, in 1676, and a plan of the whole of London which appeared posthumously in 1682 as 'London c. Actually Survey'd'. While working on these larger projects, Ogilby also conceived and ambitious atlas project, to describe the British Isles and the countries of the World. The first volumes were translated from the Dutch originals, and in the main illustrated with Dutch plates, although some English maps were created for them including Johann Nieuhoff's 'An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham' (1669), Arnold Montanus' 'Africa' (1670) and his 'Atlas Japanennsis' (1670).The volume on America is the most significant in the series as containing English material on the colonies there, and four original English Maps, 'Noua Terrae-Mariae Tabult' (Maryland), 'A New Discription of Caroline by Order of the Lords Proprietors', John Man's Novissima et Accuratissima Jamaicae Desriptio' and 'Novissima et Accuratissima Barbados Descripto'. In parallel, Ogilby also worked on companion volumes for the British Isles, descibed in proposals in 1669 and 1672, but these were never completed, and only a few maps and views survive; a prospect of 'The Citie of Edenbvrgh from the South' (1670); 'A New Map of Kent actually Survey'd and Deleniated' (1672); a sheet devoted to Canterbury (1672); 'An Actuall Survey of Midlesex' (1673) and surveys of Essex and the town of Ipswich both published posthumously in 1678 1698 respectively.Ogilby's lasting achievement was his 'Britannia, Volume the First: or, an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales' (1675), the first published Road-book of any country in western Europe, the roads drawn on a uniform scale of one inch to one mile, in the form of strip-maps running up the page. The volume was hugely successful.
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