Camden's Britannia, newly translated into English: with large additions and improvements. Publish'd by Edmund Gibson, of Queens-College in Oxford.
William Camden (1551 - 1623)
Category
Books
Date
1695
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3049713
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36] p., cxcvi columns, [2] p., 832 columns, 833-848 p., 849-876 columns, [3] p., 883-1056, 1055-1116 columns, [45] p., [2], I-IV, [1], V-VIII, [48] leaves of plates ([51] folding) : ill., maps, port., tables ; fol. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Manuscript former shelfmark in pencil on verso of front free endpaper: "U7" (crossed out). Binding: later eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five supports; single gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gilt fillets and gilt title label on spine. Shell pattern marbled textblock edges and endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Camden (1551 - 1623), author Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), engraver and publisher Robert Morden (c.1650 - London 1703), cartographer Robert White (London 1645 - London 1703), engraver (printmaker)