Speculum Britanniae.

Speculum Britanniae.

Full title: Speculum Britanniae. The first parte : an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. Wherin are also alphabeticallie sett downe, the names of the cyties, townes, parishes hamletes, howses of name &c. W.th direction spedelie to finde anie place desired in the mappe & the distance betwene place and place without compasses. Cum priuilegio / by the trauaile and vew of Iohn Norden. Anno 1593.

Norden, John, 1548-1625?

London : Printed at Eliot's Court Press

1593

[8], 48, [4] pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : maps, coats of arms (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. 4to

The title page is engraved and signed "Pieter Vanden Keere scalp: [sic] 1593." Variant 1: title page unsigned. Identification of printer from STC. With Elizabeth I's arms on (A)2v. Variant 2: this page blank. With an Anglo-Saxon alphabet on (A)4v. Variant 3: quire (A)--in another, probably earlier setting, lacking the alphabet. Running title reads: Middlesex I. pars Speculi Britanni Signatures: (A)? B-G? H. With a final leaf of verses and errata. Includes index. Bound with: Holland, Henry. Monumenta sepulchraria Sancti Pauli. London, 1614.

Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund.

Keere, Pieter van den, approximately 1571-approximately 1624, engraver.
Eliot's Court Press. Printer

English

Dated 1593 .N67
ESTC S113229