Property of Downside Abbey General TrustWilliam Camden Britannia, sive florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio. London: George Bishop and John Norton 1607 Folio (327 x 225mm.), additional engraved title-page (cut out and mounted), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 54 (of 55) double-page engraved maps, single-page engraved maps of Rutland and Anglesey, engraved and woodcut illustrations, old reversed calf, lacking Hh2-3 (map of Middlesex), title-page and following leaf strengthened in gutter and slightly shorter, rebacked with new endpapers The detailed county maps were engraved by William Hole or William Kip after Saxton or Norden; this is the first edition of Camden's Britannia to contain maps. LITERATURE: STC 4508; Skelton, County Atlases 5 PROVENANCE: Thomas Hill of Sontl[e]y, inscription at head of title-page; D.d Roberts, signature at head of title-pageCondition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
Property of Downside Abbey General TrustWilliam Camden Britannia, sive florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio. London: George Bishop and John Norton 1607 Folio (327 x 225mm.), additional engraved title-page (cut out and mounted), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 54 (of 55) double-page engraved maps, single-page engraved maps of Rutland and Anglesey, engraved and woodcut illustrations, old reversed calf, lacking Hh2-3 (map of Middlesex), title-page and following leaf strengthened in gutter and slightly shorter, rebacked with new endpapers The detailed county maps were engraved by William Hole or William Kip after Saxton or Norden; this is the first edition of Camden's Britannia to contain maps. LITERATURE: STC 4508; Skelton, County Atlases 5 PROVENANCE: Thomas Hill of Sontl[e]y, inscription at head of title-page; D.d Roberts, signature at head of title-pageCondition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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