Printed by E.Butler and dedicated to Henry Duke of Beaufort, this elaborate and highly detailed plan was the first and most important
derivative of a plan of the city by Ralph Agas in 1578 and known only
from a unique example in the Bodleian Library. It is surrounded by
seventeen views of the Oxford colleges taken from drawings made by John
Bereblock in 1566 for the occasion f the visit of Queen Elizabeth to
Oxford, and apparently much admired by the sovereign. These views were
the earliest of their kind and the originals having been lost, a copy of
them was presented to the Bodleian in 1630.Whittlesey, Robert
Oxonia Antiqua Instaurata Sive Urbis & Academiae Oxoniensis Topographica...
Copper engraved
1728
660 x 955 mm on two sheets
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