Magna Britannia et Hibernia, antiqua & nova. . Or, A new survey of Great Britain, wherein to the topographical account given by Mr. Cambden, and the late editors of his Britannia, is added a more large history ... Collected and composed by an impartial hand. ...
Thomas Cox (d.1734)
Category
Books
Date
1720 - 1731
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3058175
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v.,plates . ill.., maps . 4to.. Imperfect: vols. 1-3 only (bound as 4 vols.) Make-up of the 4 volumes: (a) title page for no. 1 of the monthly issue (1714), bound with introduction and text of vol. 1, pp. 1-463,[1]; (b) text of vol. 2, pp. 465-1044, without title page; (c) title page and preface of vol. 1 (1720), with text of vol. 2, pp. 1045-1516,[2]; (d) title page and text of vol. 3, pp. 1-362,[2]. On front pastedown of vol. (a): price-code 'P/a'; sum of dates to 1814 on end pastedown. Pressed flower petals (in tissue) loose inside vol. (d). Vol. (b) (F.d.5) formerly Z.g.3; vols. (a), (c) and (d) formerly F.d.4-6, (as NT083832 and as additional copies on NT060501).. Provenance: Inscription on flyleaf of vol. (a): 'J H Watch / Name Ricd Webdon London / Num 11242 / One D. / Jno Bozit / No. 945' [perhaps relating to a circulating library]. Marks of Joseph Salter [not identified] on flyleaves: in vol. (a), initials 'J S 1778' and 2 wood-cut stamps 'Ioseph Salter 1784'; in vol. (b), signature 'Joseph Salter'; in vol. (c), stamps as in (a).. Binding: Eighteenth-century panelled calf binding; spines have no title-label but are numbered I (vol. a), II (b), III (c and d).
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Thomas Cox (d.1734) William Camden (1551 - 1623) Anthony Hall (1679-1723) Herman Moll (1654-1732) Robert Morden (c.1650 - London 1703) John Smith (1659-1715)