Edward Mogg began this production with a plan to cover all of the country’s roads. He declared that it ‘will be divided into three parts for the purpose of rendering it more portable … The First Part, comprising the Southern Division, will be completed in Fourteen Numbers …’ Begun in 1814 the first part was completed by 1817. However this was all that was ever published. The typographic title page identifies the counties covered; ‘Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall; with part of Buckingham and Middlesex.’ The road strips afford great detail of the surroundings with all country houses noted and their owners named. Despite lacking the last two plates and the general map it appears to be as issued. Indeed the general map is dated 1 May 1817 and can be found bound at the end of the book and is therefore quite likely the last addition. It may be that this copy is indeed one of the first to be issued. Indeed we know this to have happened to his earlier work entitled ‘A Survey of the Roads from London to Brighton’, 1808. It was sold in an unfinished state, prior to publication, at a discounted rate. ‘This ambitious book, on a larger scale than before, is much the most attractive of the English road books’ (Wardington Catalogue). Provenance: bookplates of The Right Honourable Earl of Moray; R. P. L. Booker and F. Arthur Wadsworth collection dispersed 1994. Fordham p. 54.