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William Camden : Britannia sive Florentissimorum Regnorm, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et Insularum adjacentium ex intima antiquitate Chorographica descriptio. Nunc postremo recognita, & magna accessione post Germanicam aeditionem adaucta. / Hiberniae, et Insularum Britanniae Adjacentium descriptio

[Eliot’s Court Press,] imp. George Bishop, London, 1600

Original calf boards rebacked (early 20th century), spine in 5 compartments of raised bands, text on five and red morocco label on two. Edges speckled red. , Lacks the three maps and frontispiece, recurring water staining to upper leaves, black stain on V8v, occasional marginalia in period hand. Corners rubbed. Otherwise a good copy., 4to in 8’s., P. A9B8-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Bbb5; Bbb6-8-Hhh8, Iii-Nnn4, 1 ff. Mispagination on R1v, reads “342�, should read “242�. Text unaffected. Page numbers 325-326 & 643-644 absent, leaf numbers and text unaffected. , Two engraved titles. With 7 plates of Roman coins, 1 plate with a view of Stonehenge, 1 architectural plate. Illustrated with headpieces, tailpieces and initials.

Text in Latin.
William Camden was a prominent English antiquarian and historian. In 1577, with the encouragement of Abraham Ortelius, William Camden began his great work ‘Britannia,’ a topographical and historical survey of all of Britain. The first edition was published in 1586. The work, which was written in Latin, was very popular, going into seven editions by 1607. ‘Britannia’ is a county-by-county description of Britain that relates landscape and geography with antiquarianism and history. In response to criticism published in 1594 by Ralph Brooke (‘Discovery of Errors’), this edition is the first to include a postscript (Kkk-Nnn4) which responds to these particular points.
, Graesse II:24; Adams I:408; Sayle I:351; STC I:4507; Chubb CLVII; Shirley, British Library T.CAMD-5c

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