Britannia antiqua illustrata: or, The antiquities of ancient Britain, derived from the Phoenicians: wherein the original trade of this island is discovered, the names of places, offices, dignities, as likewise the idolatry, language, and customs of the primitive inhabitants are clearly demonstrated from that nation, many old monuments illustrated, and the commerce with that people, as well as the Greeks, plainly set forth and collected out of approved Greek and Latin authors. Together with a chronological history of this kingdom, from the first traditional beginning, until the year of our Lord 800, when the name of Britain was changed into England; faithfully collected out of the best authors, and disposed in a better method than hitherto hath been done; with the antiquities of the Saxons, as well as Phonicians, Greeks, and Romans. The first volume. By Aylett Sammes, of Christ's Colledge in Cambridge. Since, of the Inner-Temple.
Aylett Sammes (1636-1679)
Category
Books
Date
1676
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3026439
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 582, [6] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; fol. Wormhole damage at foot of leaves from leaf F1 through to rear board, with some loss of text. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 15764): Heny. Hunter Esqr. (arms Hunter quartering Barnard?). Inscribed in pencil on front fly-leaf: "R.W. Ketton-Cremer Felbrigg 1955" [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. With occasional marginal manuscript annotations in eighteenth or nineteenth-century hand, e.g. pp. 179, 338. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; double blind fillet border, with additional double blind fillet parallel to spine-edge; blind roll pattern along board edges; rebacked in calf overlaid with original spine; gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine.
Makers and roles
Aylett Sammes (1636-1679), author