Roads.- [Mace (Thomas)] Profit, Conveniency, and Pleasure, to the whole Nation. Being a short Rational Discourse...concerning the High-Ways of England, first edition, woodcut head-piece and initial, without 7pp. 'Advertisement' at end but text complete, upper outer corner of C1 torn away without affecting text (repaired), Macclesfield North library copy with bookplate but no blind-stamp, modern half calf, red morocco label, [Goldsmiths' 2132; Wing M121], small 4to, Printed for a Publick good, 1675.

⁂ Thomas Mace (1612/13-?1706), musician and writer on music, had been appointed a clerk (i.e. singing man) at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1655, and continued in that role for most of his life thereafter. He is most famous for the publication of Musick's monument, or, a remembrancer of the best practical musick in 1676. In this diatribe on the state of English roads, he shows a genuine interest in, and a remarkably good grasp of, the civil engineering required. In addition to other practical ideas, he proposes a scheme for straighter two-lane highways where travellers would keep to the right-hand side.