Britannia siue Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio. Authore Guilielmo Camdeno.
1600
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Title
Britannia siue Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio. Authore Guilielmo Camdeno.
Created/published
Londini : [printed at Eliot's Court Press] impensis Georg. Bishop, 1600.
Description
[16], 324, 327-642, 645-719, 718-831, [27], 30, [2] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; (4to)
Associated name
Camden, William, 1551-1623, author.
Rogers, William, approximately 1545- printmaker.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Britwell Library, former owner.
Rogers, William, approximately 1545- printmaker.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Britwell Library, former owner.
Note
The first word of the title is enclosed in a woodcut frame.
Identification of printer from STC.
With an additional title page, engraved, signed: Will[ia]ms Rogers sculpsit.
Includes indexes.
"Hiberniae, et insularum Britanniae adiacentium descriptio" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
"Ad lectorem", 30 p. at end, is a reply to: Brooke, Ralph. A discoverie of certaine errours published in print in the much commended Britannia.
Signatures: A-3H⁸ 3I-3N⁴.
The last leaf is blank.
Identification of printer from STC.
With an additional title page, engraved, signed: Will[ia]ms Rogers sculpsit.
Includes indexes.
"Hiberniae, et insularum Britanniae adiacentium descriptio" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
"Ad lectorem", 30 p. at end, is a reply to: Brooke, Ralph. A discoverie of certaine errours published in print in the much commended Britannia.
Signatures: A-3H⁸ 3I-3N⁴.
The last leaf is blank.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 4507
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107386
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107386
Genre/form
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 4507 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH44/27. Contemporary calf with initials T.G. on covers, remains of ties. Provenance: signature of Robt. Linsey on second front free endpaper and t.p.; Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 4507 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs823. Lacking blank. Provenance: manuscript note, apparently in Camden's hand: "Gulielmus Camden, in amicitiae symbolum D.D.L.M."; signature of Thomas Thomson
Call number
STC 4507 copy 3
Folger-specific note
cs1922. Lacking blank. Provenance: initials of Wakefield Christie-Miller, 1875; Britwell Court copy
Call number
STC 4507 copy 4
Folger-specific note
cs60. Lacking engr. t.p. and blank. Manuscript notes; stained. Provenance: armorial bookplate and signature of Langford Collin of Nottingham
Call number
STC 4507 copy 5
Folger-specific note
cs1589. Calf binding with a central lozenge-shaped gilt ornament with the initials 'I H' on both covers. Lacking engr. t.p., plates, and blank; A2,3 transposed. Manuscript notes in various hands. Provenance: bookplate of William Stout, 1902; signatures of Godson Meighen, Jesus College, Cambriddge, and William Henry Black, 1862; John Stowe copy