Britannia, siue, Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae : et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio / authore Guilielmo Camdeno.
1586
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Details
Title
Britannia, siue, Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae : et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio / authore Guilielmo Camdeno.
Uniform title
Britannia
Created/published
Londini : Per Radulphum Newbery : Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis, 1586.
Description
[16], 556, [12] p. : ill. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Note
Stationers' register: Entered 23 February [1586]
Signatures: A-D⁸ E⁸(±E8) F⁸ G⁸(±G8) H-2N⁸ 2O⁴.
The first word of the title is enclosed in a woodcut cartouche.
Contains the first archaeological illustration in an English book, leaf l8 recto (Luborsky)
"Hiberniae et insularum Britanniae adiacentium descriptio" (pages [487]-556) has separate dated title page.
Includes index (leaves 2N7-2O4).
Errata: leaf 2O4 verso.
Signatures: A-D⁸ E⁸(±E8) F⁸ G⁸(±G8) H-2N⁸ 2O⁴.
The first word of the title is enclosed in a woodcut cartouche.
Contains the first archaeological illustration in an English book, leaf l8 recto (Luborsky)
"Hiberniae et insularum Britanniae adiacentium descriptio" (pages [487]-556) has separate dated title page.
Includes index (leaves 2N7-2O4).
Errata: leaf 2O4 verso.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue, S107379
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 4503
Luborsky, R.S. Guide to English illustrated books 1536-1603, 4503
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 4503
Luborsky, R.S. Guide to English illustrated books 1536-1603, 4503
Includes
Hiberniae et insularum Britanniae adiacentium descriptio.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
STC 4503 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH44/24. Stiff vellum wrappers with the arms of Elizabeth on the covers.Pencilled bibliographical note of Bernard Quaritch. Provenance: inscription of Leonard Bawtree; booklabel of Charles Whibley; Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 4503 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs152. 2D1-3 signed D1-3. Manuscript notes. Provenance: inscription of Saml. Hutchinson, Queen's College, Cambridge, 1718/9; Philip Hutchinson; and Tho. Watson
Call number
STC 4503 copy 3
Folger-specific note
Smedley. T.p. torn, with a blank leaf inserted following. Manuscript notes. Provenance: inscriptions of Charles Allis, 1672 and John Turner, 1784; W.T. Smedley copy
Call number
STC 4503 copy 4
Folger-specific note
cs40. Lacking E8. 2D2 signed D2. T.p. torn and backed. Wormholed. Provenance: manuscript note on t.p.: "... Ex dono authoris, nonis Maijs 1586"; inscription on t.p. and last leaf: "Ben: Leo: Calvert 1718"; and signature (partly crossed-out) of John Howard, 1793
Call number
STC 4503 copy 5
Folger-specific note
cs169. Lacking B1, E1. 2D2 signed D2. Provenance: signatures of H. Calverley, 1666 and Richard Blanshard, 1827
Call number
STC 4503 copy 6
Folger-specific note
Small tears, repaired, at 2L4, 2O4, touching several letters. Manuscript note in early hand from original endleaf, mounted on back paste-down: "Tucks Office | Mr Bemon's sewte | Mr Berrys | Dawnser." Marginal annotations in same hand in Latin and English, some underlining, on about 20 pages. In an early laced-case vellum binding, flaps extended at fore-edge, with refreshed endpapers; gold spine title. Acquired from Christopher Edwards (list 74:18), 2017-05-24 Purchase made possible by The K. Frank and Joycelyn C. Austen Acquisitions Endowment.
Folger accession
270066