The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine : presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning: with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within ye kingdome of England divided and described
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Type of record: Book
Title: The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine : presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning: with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within ye kingdome of England divided and described
Classmark: Whitaker Collection 7 fol.
Creator(s): Speed, John (1552?-1629)
Additional creator(s): Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612) (Other); Camden, William (1551-1623) (Other)
Related people: Hondius, Jodocus; Camden, William
Publisher: And are to be solde by Iohn Sudbury and Georg Humble
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1611
Language: English
Size and medium: 146 (i.e. 140), [7] l. (chiefly maps)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299414
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004025539705181
Description
Contains 67 maps prepared by John Speed from the surveys of Saxton, Norden and others. They were engraved chiefly by Jodocus Hondius. Most of them bear the imprint of John Sudbury and George Humble, but 10 bear the imprint of Humble only. Each map contains an inset large scale plan of the county town; hundreds, wapentakes, etc., are shown on all the county maps with the exception of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland and Durham. The text, abridged from Camden's Britannia, is printed on the backs of the maps--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 19.
This edition was printed by William Hall.
Indexed in: Chubb XXII.
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