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Britannia siue Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio. Authore Guilielmo Camdeno.

  • Accession number

    83063269

  • Class

    SR - 87.1

  • Language

    Latin

  • Physical description

    [16], 324, 327-642, 645-719, 718-831, [27], 30, [2] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 4°.

  • Credit line

    CC-BY-NC-ND Image Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

General note: The first word of the title is enclosed in a woodcut frame. Identification of printer from STC. With an additional title page, engraved, signed: Will[ia]ms Rogers sculpsit. Includes indexes. "Hiberniæ, et insularum Britanniæ adiacentium descriptio" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. "Ad lectorem", 30 p. at end, is a reply to: Brooke, Ralph. A discoverie of certaine errours published in print in the much commended Britannia. Signatures: A-3H8 3I-3N4. The last leaf is blank. Lacks 3N4 (blank); contemporary MS. ink marginalia throughout UK-SuSCL Cited in: STC (2nd ed.), 4507 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1944. 1 microfilm reel; 35mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 201:03). Ownership and custodial history: Bookplate of Thomas Howitt inside front cover; MS. pencil signature on front flyleaf "Thomas [Toller?] The gift of William Sharp esq."; purchased from William Dawson Son Ltd, 1961 UK-SuSCL