Shelfmark
Gi.2.05
Author
Title
The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. Their originals, manners, warres, coines & seales: with ye successions, lives, acts & issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Caesar, to our most gracious soueraigne King Iames. By Iohn Speed..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Imprinted at London : [By William Hall and John Beale] and are to be solde by Iohn Sudbury & Georg Humble, in Popes-Head Alley at ye signe of ye White Horse., anno cum privilegio 1614.
Physical description
[2], 151-786 p., 787-801 [i.e. 802] leaves, 803-894, [52] p. : ill., ports. (woodcuts) ; 44 cm. (Fol.)
Note
The title page is engraved. Includes head- and tailpieces, decorated initials.
Note
Printers' names from colophon preceding the second index.
Note
The woodcuts are by Christoph Schweitzer.
Note
The pagination and register are continued from "The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine" (STC 23041).
Note
With slip-cancels on p. 254.
Note
Leaf 802 misnumbered 801.
Note
A reissue of the 1611 edition, with imprint date altered.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 23046
Citation/references note
ESTC, S122020
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Book label of Richard C. Jackson (1851-1923), dated 1900, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ms. notes on upper margin of 1611 title page: "H.I. P. Proby. 1820"; "ex libris K. G. Proby, J.J. Proby 14th July 1857".
Provenance
Ms. note on lower margin of 1611 title page: "this was my Dᶦ Grandpapas George Booths Esq. & given me by ouncle Tyndale. Katharine Elizabeth Howard. Her boock De[cem]ᵇʳ ye 25 1720".
Binding
17th-century calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillets to form a border and a rectangular panel with gilt floral tools at the corners (both fillets and tools are now completely faded); gilt centrepiece with initials at the top: "I W". Spine rebacked in marbled leather with 7 raised bands, decorated with blind fillets and gilt titling over black label ("Speed's history of Great Britain"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of modern wove paper; two flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock, one at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Modern ms. notes in pencil on front pastedown (price) and first flyleaf recto (references to contents within the work).
Copy-specific note
Includes loose engraved portrait 'of an ancient Briton' before the title page.
Copy-specific note
Includes title page from 1611 edition before that of 1614.
Copy-specific note
Ms. note on upper margin of 1614 title page: "Mary Strete".
Subject
Great Britain History Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Schwitzer, Christoph engraver.
Added entry--name
Hall, William, 1752 - 1834 printer.
Added entry--name
Beale, John, ? - 1643 printer.
Added entry--name
Sudbury, John, 1604 - 1684 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Humble, George, ? - -1640 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Jackson, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1851 - 1923 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51142