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 3058175.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
1 vol containing title page for no. 1 of the monthly issue (1714), bound with introduction and text of vol. 1, pp. 1-463,[1];.,plates . ill.., maps . 4to.. On front pastedown: price-code 'P/a'; sum of dates to 1814 on end pastedown. Formerly F.d.4. Provenance: Inscription on flyleaf: '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 flyleaf: initials 'J S 1778' and 2 wood-cut stamps 'Ioseph Salter 1784'. Binding: Eighteenth-century panelled calf binding; spine has no title-label but is numbered I.
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)