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John Owen & Emanuel Bowen (d.1767)
Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd; being a correct copy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, London: Tho. Bowles & E. Bowen, 1720 [i.e. 1721]. Small 4° (219 x 150mm.). Engraved title within ornamental border, 4 engraved leaves of tables, 273 engraved plates of road and country maps by Emanuel Bowen. (Title and margins lightly soiled, lightly spotted, light even browning, inner gutter of pp. 272-273 with adhesive marks causing loss of one or 2 letters of c.11 lines of text.) Contemporary reversed calf (rebacked, recornered and recased).
Second edition with the corrected imprint, the note on Stony Stratford on p.53 and page numbers 121 and 124 moved. Chubb CXLVIII.
Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd; being a correct copy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, London: Tho. Bowles & E. Bowen, 1720 [i.e. 1721]. Small 4° (219 x 150mm.). Engraved title within ornamental border, 4 engraved leaves of tables, 273 engraved plates of road and country maps by Emanuel Bowen. (Title and margins lightly soiled, lightly spotted, light even browning, inner gutter of pp. 272-273 with adhesive marks causing loss of one or 2 letters of c.11 lines of text.) Contemporary reversed calf (rebacked, recornered and recased).
Second edition with the corrected imprint, the note on Stony Stratford on p.53 and page numbers 121 and 124 moved. Chubb CXLVIII.
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