Shelfmark
Gf.1.11-Gf.1.14
Title
The English atlas volume I -(IV)...
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford, : Printed at the Theater, for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Pauls church-yeard, London. MDCLXXX. [1680]
Physical description
4 volumes : maps, portraits ; 57 cm. (fol.)
Note
Pagination: Volume 1: [8], 9, [1], 52, 28, 72, [68] pages, XLIV [i.e. 46] leaves of plates -- Volume 2: [4], 151, [81] pages, [2], XLV leaves of plates (2 folded) -- Volume 3: [4], 157-312, [74] pages, [1], XLVII leaves of plates -- Volume 4: [4], 244, [42] pages, [2], XLI leaves of plates.
Note
The plates are numbered as follows (all are double-page, except the portraits and where noted): Volume 1: the directions to the binder assign the numbering 1-7, 6-44 to the plates, while the plates themselves are numbered [1-4] 5 [6-7], VI-XLIV. -- Volume 2: the directions to the binder assign the numbers 1-45 to the maps, but omit the frontispiece and title-plate; the maps themselves are numbered [1] II-VII 8 IX-XLV; plate XXXXII is singe-page, and XXXIIX and XL are folded -- Volume 3: there are no directions to the binder, but the frontispiece is unnumbered and the maps are numbered I-XLVII. -- Volume 4: there are no directions to the binder, but the frontispiece and title-plate are unnumbered and the maps are numbered I-VIII XI [sic] X-XLI; plate XXVI is single-page.
Note
Originally offered to subscribers as prospective work in 11 volumes of which only four were published.
Note
Volume 2 has an added intaglio title-page reading "The English atlas volume 2 tome 1"; both title-pages to volume 2 are dated 1681. Volume 3 is dated 1683. Volume 4 has an added intaglio title-page reading "The English atlas volume 4" and is dated 1682.
Note
Each volume was issued with a frontispiece portrait. That in volume 1 is signed "R. White sculpsit."; that in volume 2 is signed "Iohn Baptist Caspers pinxit. Ed: Davis sculpsit."; that in volume 3 is signed "P. Vandrebanc Sculp."; that in volume 4 is signed "D. Loggan Sculp.".
Note
The title-pages are printed in red and black and bear an intaglio vignette of Minerva.
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Woodcut and intaglio head- and tail-pieces and initials; printed marginalia.
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The text is largely printed in two columns.
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The plates are listed at the end of volumes 1 and 2.
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Advertisements on the final pages in volumes 1 and 2.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Volume 1. Containing a description of the places next the North Pole, as also of Muscovy, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and their several dependencies. -- Volume 2. Containing the description of part of the empire of Germany, viz. the Upper and Lower Saxony, the Dukedoms of Mecklenburg, Bremen, Magdeburg, &c. The Marquisates of Brandenburg and Misnia, with the territories adjoining. The Palatinate of the Rhine: and the kingdom of Bohemia. By William Nicolson ... -- Volume 3. Containing the description of the remaining part of the Empire of Germany, viz. Schwaben, the Palatinate of Bavaria, Arch-Dukedom of Austria, Kingdom of Hungary, Principality of Transylvania, the Circle of Westphalia, with the neighboring provinces / by William Nicolson. -- Volume 4. The description of the seventeen provinces of the Low-Countries, or Netherlands / by Richard Peers.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R2546
Citation/references note
Madan, I, 3253
Citation/references note
Wing, P2306 (v.1)
Citation/references note
Wing, P2306A (v.2)
Citation/references note
Wing, P2306B (v.3)
Citation/references note
Wing, P2306C (v.4)
Provenance
Booklabel recording donation to Eton College by John Reynolds in 1751.
Binding
Late 18th century Cambridge style two toned calf binding; blind tooled boards; gold tooled decorative flowers on spine; gold tooled, red morocco spine label; seven raised bands.
Subject
Belgium Description and travel Early works to 1800.
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Denmark Description and travel Early works to 1800.
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Germany Description and travel Early works to 1800.
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Netherlands Description and travel Early works to 1800.
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Poland Description and travel Early works to 1800.
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Russia Description and travel Early works to 1800.
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Sweden Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
White, Robert, 1645 - 1703 engraver.
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Gaspers, Jan Baptist, ? - 1691 illustrator.
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Le Davis, Edward engraver.
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Banck, Pieter van der, 1649 - 1697 engraver.
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Loggan, David, 1635 - 1700? engraver.
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Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654 - 1696 publisher.
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Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
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Oxford University Press publisher.
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Sheldonian Theatre printer.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Identifier
B48925