Rare road map atlas England Wales 1719 strip maps

Ogilby, John]. A Pocket-Guide to the English Traveller: Being a Compleat Survey and Admeasurement of all the Principal Roads and most considerable cross-roads in England and Wales. London: J. Tonson, 1719. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. [4], 8 pp. With 100 double-page copper-engraved strip maps of English roads. (4to) 7¼x6¼, period paneled calf, rebacked with original spine strip laid on, later endpapers. Thomas Gardner's reduction of John Ogilby's Itinerarium Angliae; or, Book of the principal roads of England and Wales, sometimes listed under Gardner rather than Ogilby. The charming engraved strip maps delineate each stage of 100 principal roads through England and Wales. Spine rubbed, worn, corners chipped and showing; a few maps with lower edges shaved affecting plate numbers and a map or two, else very good. What has become in recent years an extremely scarce atlas.