John Ogilby

(b. 17 November 1600, d. 4 September 1676)
Dancing master, poet, translator, surveyor, and geographer. Appointed King’s Cosmographer 1670-1671.

John Ogilby authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:

  • Ogilby, John, and William Morgan. The Country About 15 Miles any Way from London. London, 1683. [See more information about this map.]
  • Ogilby, John, and William Morgan. A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London. Ichnographically Describing all the Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Courts, Yards, Churches, Halls and Houses, &c. Actually Surveyed and Delinated. London, 1677. [See more information about this map.]
  • Ogilby, John, and William Morgan. A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London Ichnographically Describing All the Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Courts, Yards, Churches, Halls and Houses, &c. Actually Surveyed and Delineated by John Ogilby, esq., His Majesties Cosmographer. London, 1676. Remediated by British History Online. [We cite by index label thus: Ogilby and Morgan B80.]
  • Ogilby, John, and William Morgan. A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London Ichnographically Describing All the Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Courts, Yards, Churches, Halls and Houses, &c. Actually Surveyed and Delineated by John Ogilby, esq., His Majesties Cosmographer. London, 1676. Reprinted as The A to Z of Restoration London. Introduced by Ralph Hyde. Indexed by John Fisher and Roger Cline. London: London Topographical Society, 1992. Print.
  • Ogilby, John, and William Morgan. A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London Ichnographically Describing All the Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Courts, Yards, Churches, Halls and Houses, &c. Actually Surveyed and Delineated by John Ogilby, esq., His Majesties Cosmographer. London, 1676. Reprinted by Lypne Castle: Harry Margary, 1976. [We cite by index label thus: Ogilby and Morgan B80.]
  • Ogilby, John, and William Morgan. London Survey’d, or, An Explanation of the Large Map of London Giving a Particular Account of the Streets and Lanes in the City and Liberties, with the Courts, Yards, Alleys, Churches, Halls, and Houses of Note in Every Street and Lane, and Directions to Find Them in the Map, with the Names and Marks of the Wards, Parishes, and Precincts Therein Described. London: Printed and Sold at the Author’s House in Whitefriars, 1677.