Britannia, siue Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio: nunc postremò recognita, plurimis locis magna accessione adaucta, & chartis chorographicis illustrata. Guilielmo Camdeno authore.
William Camden (1551 - 1623)
Category
Books
Date
1607
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3122204
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 133, [2], 134-143, [2], 144-153, [2], 154-159, [2], 160-175, [2], 176-187, [2], 188-201, [2], 202-211, [2], 212-219, [2], 220-229, [2], 230-338 [i.e. 348], 347-423, [2], 424-430, [3], 432-436, [3], 438-578, 577-860, [24] p., folded plate : ill., maps (metal cuts, woodcuts) ; fol. Variant: title page line 9 has "Tabulis". Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. either William Windham II (1717-1761) or William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Manuscript former shelfmarks in pencil on front pastedown: "P8" and "N7" (both crossed out). Manuscript former shelfmark in black ink on rear pastedown: "P8". Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; fore-edges folded-over; gold-tooled spine divided into panels by double fillets, the panels with fleur-de-lys floral stamps and roll patterns; gilt title on red goatskin label on spine. Blue stained textblock edges.
Makers and roles
William Camden (1551 - 1623), author William Hole (d.1624), engraver (printmaker) William Kip (fl.c1598-1635), engraver (printmaker)