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Creator:
Camden, William, 1551–1623
Title(s):
Britannia, sive, Florentissimorum regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descripto : nunc postremò recognita, plurimis locis magna accessione adaucta, & chartis chorographicis illustrata / Guilielmo Camdeno, authore.
Published/Created:
Londini : Impensis Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, 1607.
Physical Description:
[16], 860, [23] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port., maps ; 32 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA610 .C35 1607+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Maps engraved by William Hole, and William Kip; after John Norden, Christopher Saxton, and George Owen.
Added engraved t.p. with vignette.
Fifteen of the maps are printed on unnumbered rectos and versos.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640, 4508
Subject Terms:
Camden, William, 1551–1623 -- Pres. insc. to Emanuel van Meteren, 1535–1612.
Great Britain -- Antiquities.
Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Meteren, Emanuel van, 1535–1612 -- Pres. insc. from William Camden, 1551–1623.
Form/Genre:
Engravings.
Etchings.
Woodcuts.
Contributors:
Hole, William, -1624, engraver.
Kip, William, engraver.
Norden, John, 1548–1625?, ill.
Saxton, Christopher, 1542?- ill.
Owen, George, 1552–1613, ill.
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