The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine: presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland and the iles adioyning: with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within ye kingdome of England, divided and described by Iohn Speed.
John Speed (1552? -1629)
Category
Books
Date
1627
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire
NT 3196017
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 146, [10] p., [134] leaves of plates : maps ; fol. Armorial on A2 illuminated. Repairs to many plates. Provenance: nineteenth-century seal bookplate: Farnborough Library; small personal label added with initials: C.W.H. [i.e. Charles William Holbech (1816-1901)]. Binding: sixteenth-century calf; gilt fillet border, gilt tooled panel and centrepiece device; rebacked.
Makers and roles
John Speed (1552? -1629) Jodocus Hondius the elder (1563 - Amsterdam 1612) Christoph Schweitzer