Britannia

Britannia

Full title: Britannia, sive, Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio / authore Guilielmo Camdeno.

Camden, William, 1551-1623

London : George Bishop

1600

[16], 324, 327-642, 645-719, 718-831, [27], 30 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations (metal cut and woodcut), maps (metal cut) ; 21 cm. (4to in 8s)

Errata on p. [26] at end. Pages 69-75 are engraved illustrations, the plates are engraved maps; additional woodcut and metal cut illustrations throughout text. Printed at Eliot's Court Press--cf. STC. With additional engraved title page, signed: "Willms Rogers sculpsit." The other illustrations are not signed. Includes indexes. "Hibernaiae et inuslarum Britanniae adiacentium descriptio (p. [749]) has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. "Ad lectorem" (p. 30) at end is a reply to: Brooke, Ralph. A discoverie of certaine errours published in the much commended Britannia, 1594. The first word of the title is enclosed in a woodcut frame. Signatures: 4to: A-3L⁸ 3N⁴. Various errors in pagination. Last leaf is blank. "Hiberni et insularum Britanniadiacentium descriptio" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.

Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund.

Rogers, William, approximately 1545- engraver.
Bishop, George, -1611, bookseller.
Eliot's Court Press, printer.

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Dated 1600 .C36
STC (2nd ed.), 4507
ESTC S107386
Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 4507