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Britannia : or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging. And for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with. Illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones, the like never before published

Archive Print Item: Large Whitaker Collection 35

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Type of record: Book

Title: Britannia : or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging. And for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with. Illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones, the like never before published

Level: Item

Classmark: Large Whitaker Collection 35

Additional creator(s): Blome, Richard (1705) (Other); Roycroft, Thomas (1677) (Other)

Related people: Blome, Richard; Roycroft, Thomas

Publisher: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for the undertaker, Richard Blome

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1673

Language: English

Size and medium: [14], 464 p., [24] p. of plates, 50 leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299057

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003976469705181

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"An alphabetical account of the nobility and gentry", p. 345-464, has a separate dated title page.


Attributed to Richard Blome. Cf. BM.


The plates consist of "coats of armes" etc., of the "benefactors & promoters of this work", and are printed on both sides.


Title page printed in red and black.


Relief on maps shown pictorially.


Britannia.


Indexed in: ESTC R7330; Chubb XCIX.

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