Ogilby and Morgan’s Rare Map of Essex

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Essex Actually Surveyed with the several Roads from London &c.

Exactly measured at three mile in an Inch.

MORGAN, William and John Ogilby
London,
Sold By Phil. Lea at ye Atlas and Hercules in Cheapside,
[c.1689].
Hand-coloured double-page engraved map, trimmed to within neatline.
430 by 540mm. (17 by 21.25 inches).
1635

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notes:

A new state of the map by John Ogilby and William Morgan (first published in 1678), with Ogilby's name and date removed and Lea's imprint inserted, but Morgan's dedication to Arthur, Earl of Essex, retained. By this point the plate had been acquired by Philip Lea who published it in this edition of the Saxton atlas of c. 1689. ...

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Skelton 110.

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