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 20
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: and are to bee sould by Roger Rea the Elder & younger
Publication city: London
Date(s): Anno 1662
Language: English
Size and medium: [368] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/298153
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003837889705181
Description
An abridgement of: Speed, John. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine, the text of which is mainly based on: Camden, William. Britannia.
In the latter part some of the maps show that they have been printed from older, worn or damaged plates, but the text is still the identical printing of the third edition of those dated 1627. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 26.
Most maps were engraved by Pieter van den Keere.
Additional description
Bound with 1 other publication in a volume lettered: SPEED'S MINIATURE ATLAS. 1646. Volume contents: 1. Speed, J.: A prospect of the most famous parts of the world, 1646. -- 2. Speed, J. and Keer, P.: England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland... [etc.], 1662
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