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The English travellers companion or, A ready and sure g[uide] from Londo[n,] to any of the principal cities and tow[ns] in England & Wal[es.] : Containing all the grand roads with their branches, and the towns and vil [...] pass through: to which is affixed the computed distan[ce from] one town to another. Exhibited by five tables in a new [and ac]curate method. Very delightful for those that stay at home, [and] more useful for all such as have business to any part of the kingdom. By a lover of his country-men
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- London : printed for Tho. Basset, at the George in Fleetstreet; and Rich. Chiswel, at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1676
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- [4] p., [5] fold. leaves
- "A lover of his country-men" = John Ogilby.
- "Mr. Ogilby's tables of his measur'd roads" has separate dated title page, register and pagination and is separately catloged as Wing (2nd ed.) O182.
- Identified as Wing (2nd ed.) O170A on reel 1766, and as Wing (2nd ed.) E3121B (number cancelled in CD-ROM, 1996) on reel 1986; fragment at reel 1692:19 incorrectly identified as Wing O182.
- Imperfect; title page torn with loss of print; copy at 1692:19 is a fragment, 2 leaves only.
- Reproductions of the originals in the British Library (reels 1766, 1986) and University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library (reel 1692).
- Wing (2nd ed.) O170A.
- Wing (2nd ed.) E3121B.
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.