This book will appeal to the enthusiasts for Britannia’s strip maps of the roads of England and Wales, but it may surprise many of them. The book starts with an introduction to Britannia – its origins and contents, including a listing and mapping of the roads. Most of the remainder of the book is devoted to a detailed study of a selection of the strip maps chosen to illustrate their variety of styles and the accuracy with which they represent what was on the ground at the time the roads were surveyed. Dickinson’s chief aims are to draw attention to the many types of error to be found in the strip maps, to discuss in detail the possible reasons for them and to explain how, in spite of the errors, the maps can be used by those who understand their limitations to derive information about the roads and countryside of the second half of the seventeenth century.
...MoreReview Renae Satterley (2020) Review of "Britannia's Roads: An Introduction to the Strip Maps of John Ogilby's Britannia,1675". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 79-80).
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