Britannia : or, a chorographical description of the flourishing kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the islands adjacent; from the earliest antiquity. / By William Camden. Translated from the edition published by the author in MDCVII. Enlarged by the latest discoveries, by Richard Gough. The second edition. In four volumes. Illustrated with maps, and other copper-plates.
William Camden (1551 - 1623)
Category
Books
Date
1806
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3034210.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition. v. 2, pp. 443-493 (Warwickshire & Worcestershire) : ill., maps, ports. ; fol. Extra-illustrated. Pencil number and bookseller's notes on front pastedown. Nineteenth-century manuscript index. Ephemera: plates and newspaper cutting loosely inserted. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] on front pastedown. Binding: Nineteenth-century half green morocco, marbled paper over boards; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Warwick & Worcester'; printed paper label pasted onto upper board: 'Warwick & Worcester'.
Makers and roles
William Camden (1551 - 1623), author Richard Gough (1735-1809), translator