Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions And Improvements

Camden, William

F. Collins. for A.Swalle & A. & F. Churchil, 1695

Folio, 15 x 9 1x4 inches.  Contemporary Cambridge style calf, rebacked and rehinged on a later spine.  Raised bands, gilt ruled.  Edge wear.  Collated, complete: Contains all 50 double-page maps by Morden, et al.  cxcvi, 1116 pp.  Engraved frontispiece portrait, 8 engraved plates of coins.  Light dampstain along top margin. Some foxing to the map of Scotland.   Book plate of Roger Burdett Wilson, Hutton House Library.  

Refs: Wing C359; Chubb CXIII, p. 93; Skelton 117; ESTC R12882.  

  First Gibson translation of 1586 Latin edition and the first to contain maps by Robert Morden. "If Camden was not the first English historian, topographer and antiquarian, he was certainly the first to relate the three studies. It was the revolutionary subject matter, and its even more revolutionary treatment of the subject, which made it at once the vehicle and the model for research in all three subjects for the next two hundred and fifty years." PMM 101