Buy this book on-line SELLER, John, Joseph Wild, at the Elephant at Charing-Cross : Camden’s Britannia Abridg’d with Improvements, and Continuations, to this present Time
Octavo, two volumes (190 x 115 mm. each), full modern calf, ornate blind panels with corner decoration, spine with raised bands, blind ruled with ornate blind decoration, gilt titles. With typographic title pages to both volumes, pp. (26), 466, (10); frontispiece engraved portrait of William Camden by M. V. Gucht (repaired tear), (2), (paginated 467-822), (2), 103, (5), with 61 engraved maps, otherwise in good condition.
The origin of this small two volume edition of William Camden’s Britannia is laid out in the Preface. ‘The last Edition of our Author, Publish’d by the Ingenious Mr. Gibson, met with that Acceptance in the World as might be expected: But it being a very large Volume, and, upon account of its Maps and other Sculptures, unavoidably high in its Price, it was thought it might be of Publick Use, to Publish an Abridgement of this Author ...’ To enable this the text was drawn from the Latin text of Regner Vitellius from the edition of Willem Blaeu published in Amsterdam in 1617. This edition was printed by J. Brockwell and included the series of maps by John Seller first published in the Anglia Contracta. The bibliographies call for 60 maps but in this example a map of the Isle of Wight is included in the chapter on Hampshire. It is interesting to note that John Seller’s junior at first shared his premises with a printer called Richard Wilde. It is possible that Richard Wilde and Joseph Wild the printer here are related. Provenance: signature of 'Samuel Carr Queen's College Cambridge' (1791-1854) on front free endpaper, a lecturer in theology; with bookplate of the author Thomas Leslie Papillon (1841-1926) affixed inside front cover; bookplate of Roy Harvey Johnstone (1923-98) pasted inside front cover; his collection sold at Sotheby’s London 20 September 2001 lot 9; private English collection. Chubb (1927) 120; ESTC T110653; Hodson (1984-97) no. 122, pp. 123-4; Shirley (2004) T.Camd 6a; Skelton (1970) 122; Tyacke (1978) p. 140; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).
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