Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel . Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd, 4th edition, Thos. Bowles, 1731, printed title, four leaves containing an index of the roads within the atlas, a list of cities and towns and a list of maps within the atlas, 273 (complete) uncoloured engraved strip road maps and county maps, printed back to back, near contemporary ownership signature and later bookplate to the front pastedown, hinges cracked, contemporary gilt calf, heavily worn with crude tape repair to the spine, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Chubb. CLII. A good clean example throughout. The title page states that this is the fourth edition, but John Bowles's catalogue of the same year, identifies it as the fifth.
Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel . Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd, 4th edition, Thos. Bowles, 1731, printed title, four leaves containing an index of the roads within the atlas, a list of cities and towns and a list of maps within the atlas, 273 (complete) uncoloured engraved strip road maps and county maps, printed back to back, near contemporary ownership signature and later bookplate to the front pastedown, hinges cracked, contemporary gilt calf, heavily worn with crude tape repair to the spine, 8vo (Quantity: 1) Chubb. CLII. A good clean example throughout. The title page states that this is the fourth edition, but John Bowles's catalogue of the same year, identifies it as the fifth.
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