1675 - Large original antique engraved road map titled: ' The Road from BRISTOL to WEYMOUTH com Dorset....from ye high Cross in Bristol to Bishops Clive to Wells to Glastonbury to Somerton to Martock to Crokehorn to South Parret to Frampton to Weymouth '

A fine large format original Road Map by John Ogilby.
Overall size of this Folio size print is approximately 41cm x 50cm with large margins, perfect for mounting and 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.