England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland described and abridged : with ye historic relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger voulume done by Iohn Speed
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Type of record: Book
Title: England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland described and abridged : with ye historic relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger voulume done by Iohn Speed
Other titles: Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 18
Creator(s): Speed, John (1552?-1629)
Additional creator(s): Keere, Pieter van den (1571-1624) (Other); Camden, William (1551-1623) (Other)
Related people: Keere, Pieter van den; Camden, William
Publisher: [J. Dawson] and are to bee sould at Georg Humble at the White-horse in popeshead Alley
Publication city: London
Date(s): Anno 1627
Language: English
Size and medium: [368] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298098
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003834279705181
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Signatures: A-Z⁸.
Printer's name from STC.
An abridgement of: Speed, John. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine, the text of which is mainly based on: Camden, William. Britannia.
Contains sixty-three maps, forty of which are reprints of Peter Keer's maps of 1599 issued at Amsterdam in 1617. Sixteen are newly engraved maps of some of the English counties which, in the earlier editions of 1599 and 1617, were grouped together. Seven are additional maps. Ther titles of the maps, previously in Latin, have been put into English. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 25.
A2v line 14 of text ends: 'most behoue-'.
Indexed in: Chubb XI.
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