Britain, or, A chorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiquitie : beautified with mappes of the severall shires of England
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Type of record: Book
Title: Britain, or, A chorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiquitie : beautified with mappes of the severall shires of England
Other titles: Britannia; Chorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the ilands adjoyning, out of the depth of antiquitie; Camden's Britannia
Classmark: YAS 1996
Creator(s): Camden, William (1551-1623)
Additional creator(s): Holland, Philemon (1552-1637) (Translator); Bishop, George (1611) (Bookseller); Norton, John (1612) (Bookseller); Saxton, Christopher (1542-) (Cartographer); Kip, William (1624) (Engraver); Hole, William (1600-1646) (Engraver); Eliot's Court Press (Printer)
Publisher: [Printed at Eliot's Court Press] impensis Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton
Publication city: Londini
Date(s): M.DC.X. [1610]
Language: English
Size and medium: 16 unnumbered pages, 822 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 233 pages, 55 unnumbered pages, 57 unnumbered plates, mostly folded
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/507827
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011279959705181
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
A translation of: Britannia.
Identification of printer from STC.
Additional title page, engraved, lacking imprint: Britannia, followed by dedication leaf.
Errors in paging, text and register are continuous. P. 299 misnumbered 287. Variant: also has p. 302 misnumbered 299.
"Scotland" has a divisional title and separate pagination. Within this, "Ireland, and the smaller ilands in the British Ocean" has a divisional title; register is continuous.
Includes indexes.
With initials.
The maps come in three states; for details see Skelton.
Signatures: [fleuron]⁸ A-G⁶ H⁸ I-3X⁶ 3Y⁸ 4A-4V⁶ 4X-5I².
Entered to Bishop, Norton, and T. Adams, E. Bishop, R. Bankworth, W. Aspley 4 June [1610].
Maps by Christopher Saxton, John Norden and George Owen, Lord of Kemes, engraved by William Hole and William Kip.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.),
Indexed in: ESTC,
Indexed in: Skelton, R.A. County atlases of the British Isles,
Additional description
Full-bound in calf leather. Spine lettered: 'Camden's Britannia'. Inscribed on title page and elsewhere in volume: 'John Waterhouse bought at Yorke in February 1646' and below it: 'Jo. Turner 1735'. With a further illegible inscription on title page. Inserted between pages 384-385: one leaf with two news articles on one side and manuscript annotations and an advertisement on the verso (printed 4 times). The advertisement is headed: 'Sheffield, July 24, 1759' and concerns the visit of Professor Hillmer, Physician and Counsellor of the Court to the King of Prussia to the city
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