Britannia, sive, Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio : nunc postremò recognita, plurimis locis magna accessione adaucta, & chartis chorographicis illustrata
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Type of record: Book
Title: Britannia, sive, Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio : nunc postremò recognita, plurimis locis magna accessione adaucta, & chartis chorographicis illustrata
Other titles: Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adjacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio
Classmark: BC GB C16/17 q/CAM
Creator(s): Camden, William (1551-1623)
Additional creator(s): Hole, William (1624) (Other); Kip, William (1624) (Other); Bishop, George (fl. 1566-1611) (Other); Norton, John (1612) (Other)
Related people: Hole, William; Kip, William; Bishop, George; Norton, John
Publisher: Impensis Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton
Publication city: Londini
Date(s): 1607
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [xv], 860 [i.e. 872], [23] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298063
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003828249705181
Description
This is the sixth and last Latin edition of the Britannia published by Camden himself and the first with county maps. The maps are engraved from the surveys of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and George Owen, by William Hole and William Kip. The text in full was reprinted in Latin, French, German, Dutch or Spanish, by Blaeu from 1645 and by Jansson from 1646 in the respective volumes (which dealt with the English counties) or their atlases. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 18.
The maps are engraved from the surveys of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and George Owen, by William Hole and William Kip.
The first word of the title is enclosed in a woodcut frame.
With an additional title page, engraved, signed: Gulielmus Hole sculpsit.
Variant: title page line 9 has "Tabulis" rather than "Chartis".
Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adjacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio.
Includes indexes.
Indexed in: Chubb XVIII.
Additional description
With stamped calf binding. Ms. notes on flyleaf. Bookplate of Col. Charles Cathcart. Engraved title-page has ms. inscription 'Clarissimo & eruditissimo viro Dño Johanni Jonstono sacrae Theologiae in Academia Andraeapolina Professori Guil. Camdenus Libens merito d.d.'. On title-page is the inscription 'Joannes Maule me jure possidet'. Wanting: pp. 133-4 143-4 153-4 159-60 175-6 187-8 201-2 211-2 219-21 261-4 275-8 287-90 331-4 409-12
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