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Poitou - Provence - Saintonge - Savoy - Touraine. Sri Lanka. The work contains strip road maps that are accompanied by a double-sided page of text giving additional advice for the map's use, and notes on the towns shown and the pronunciations of their names. University of Chicago Press. Contact Form. His continuing success and reputation brought important and influential pupils from far and wide.

As well as the awesome physical task of surveying the roads carried out by a number of assistants whose work was checked on its return to London John's time and expertise must have been directed towards the large financial cost of such a project. Further reading [ edit ]. Strafford made him deputy-master of the revels, and he built a little theater in St.

Information about John Ogilby's early adulthood is limited. The Irish Rebellion in October of caused the theatre to close. A year later John was again made Master of the Revels in Ireland and he set about the building of a new theatre in Smock Alley, Dublin. Edward Mogg. Antique Maps of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. William Morgan who succeeded to the titles of Cosmographer Royal and Master of the Revels in Ireland carrying on Ogilby's work and in his magnificent large scale plan of London, Westminster and Southwark was published.

Guide to Collecting. Maps of France. South East Asia. London Topographical Society. Read Edit View history. He was probably at least a half-brother to James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie , though neither overtly acknowledged this. Ogilby returned to England in January , being shipwrecked on his homeward journey. The following year saw the publication of the latest edition of John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain and John Ogilby was most distressed to see the pirating of his work by the publishers Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell who added tables of towns and distances to the Theatre.

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John Ogilby. I am now able to offer through my websites a personal service to map and print collectors. His property was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in , but he rebuilt his house in Whitefriars, and set up a printing press, from which he issued many magnificent books, the most important of which were a series of atlases, with engravings and maps by Hollar and others.