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

Camden, William

London: F. Collins. for A. Swalle & A. & F. Churchill, 1695.

Folio. cxcvi, 1116pp, Annals of Ireland, index, frontispiece, 9 plates of coins and antiquities, 16 (of 50) double-page maps. Contemporary Cambridge style calf, early 20th century reback, raised bands, blind tooled dentelles, page ends washed red. Wear, chipping to edges, rehinged, scattered light foxing, light staining/soiling at margins and maps. Armorial book plate of John L. Middleton and W. Rolleston Saunders to pastedowns.

Maps present in this copy: Britania: Saxonica; England, by Robert Morden; Hertfordshire; Bedfordshire; Glocestershire; Cambridgeshire; Huntingtonshire; Northamptonshire; Leicestershire; Comitatus Rotelandie; Nottinghamshire; Warwickshire; Staffordshire; Herfordshire; North Riding of Yorkshire; The Smaller Islands. Wing-C359.

First Gibson translation of 1586 Latin edition. "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