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 9 fol.
Creator(s): Speed, John (1552?-1629)
Additional creator(s): Elstrack, R (Other)
Related people: Elstrack, R
Publisher: Iohn Sudbury & Georg Humble
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1614 [i.e. ca. 1623]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 atlas ([8], 94 leaves, 95-98 p, 99-126 leaves, 127-130 p, 131-146, [5] leaves)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/299473
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004033809705181
Description
The title-page for the English county section is dated 1614, and the subsidiary title-pages for Wales, Scotland and Ireland, are all dated 1616, which is perfectly standard. With the exception of that of Northumberland, in the Brotherton Library copy, all the county maps include the addition of the appropriate names of the British tribes, such as "The Brigantes" for Yorkshire, and the names of sundry Roman stations, etc., according to Camden's Britannia. These additions have previously been attributed to the edition of 1627, printed by John Dawson. There was an edition of Speed's History in 1623, so 1623 has been assumed as a probable date for this edition, for, although the text was printed at the same time as that for the normal English edition of 1614, its maps were undoubtedly printed after those for the Latin edition of 1616. "R. Elstrack sculpsit" appears on the map of Norfolk, so he presumably engraved all these additions--Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds,
1947, p. 20.
Text by Thomas Snodham--Whitaker, p. 20.
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