Shelfmark
Gi.3.06
Author
Camden, William, 1551 - 1623 author.
Uniform title
[Britannia. English.]
Title
Camden's Britannia, newly translated into English: with large additions and improvements. Publish'd by Edmund Gibson, of Queens-College in Oxford..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed by F. Collins, for A. Swalle, at the Unicorn at the west-end of St Paul's Church-yard; and A. & F. Churchil, at the Black Swan in Pater-noster Row., 1695..
Physical description
[36] p., cxcvi cols., [4] p., 832 cols., 833-848 p., 846-1116 cols., [90] cols., [26] p. and [50] leaves of plates : ill., maps, port., tables ; 39 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Signatures: pi² A² a-g² B-N⁴ O², ²A-Pp⁴ Qq² *Qq² Rr² *Rr² Ss² *Ss² Tt² *Tt² Uu² *Uu² Xx² *Xx² Yy² *Yy² Zz² *Zz² Aaa² *Aaa² Bbb² *Bbb² Ccc² *Ccc² Ddd² *Ddd² Eee² *Eee² Fff² *Fff² Ggg² *Ggg² **Ggg² Hhh² *Hhh² **Hhh² Iii² *Iii² Kkk-Mmm⁴ Nnn-Nnnn², ²a-l².
Note
Additional gatherings with asteriscs and double asteriscs in their signatures follow immediately after the respective gathering without asteris. Text and pagination are continuous.
Note
Frontispiece portrait of the author (on pi1v) signed "R. White sculp.".
Note
Most plates are signed by Robert Morden and include some variation of the imprint "sold by Abel Swale Awnsham and Iohn Churchill".
Note
Eight single-page plates of coins and medals are numbered in Roman numerals, and interspersed between unnumbered plates at the beginning of the volume. Most of the plates are double-page maps (sometimes bound folded).
Note
"The counties of England and VVales." and "Scotland, Ireland, and the British Islands." each have divisional half-titles on O2r and *Iii2r respectively.
Note
Woodcut initials and factotums; printed marginal notes.
Note
The title-page is set within a double-rule border.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R12882
Citation/references note
Wing, C359
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of William Sanxay with motto “nec spe nec metu” on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ms. note "John Southwell [1895?]" on front flyleaf.
Binding
?18th-century polished and speckled calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border and a rectangular panel with tools at the corners - inner compartment is polished, the outer is speckled; blind transversal tools on board edges have been overlaid with a gilt roll on the fore-edge. Spine rebacked with six raised bands, decorated with blind fillets and gilt titling over red label ("Camdens Britannia"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red (mostly faded). Endpapers of undecorated paper; two flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock and one at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Ms. note referring to Stonhenge plate at p. 195 on front pastedown.
Subject
Great Britain Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Gibson, Edmund, 1669 - 1748 editor.
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White, Robert, 1645 - 1703 engraver.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Collins, Freeman, fl. 1682 - 1713 printer.
Added entry--name
Swall, Abel bookseller.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B51153