On the streets, on the roads and on the run from press gangs...
THE opening map and atlas section of the Bonhams Bath sale of April 26 included a copy in rebacked contemporary calf of the first and only published volume of the 1675 first edition of John Ogilby’s Britannia with its general map and 100 engraved strip road maps, at £7000.
The second and third volumes of Britannia, which were to have contained town plans and country maps …