CAMDEN, William (1551-1623)

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CAMDEN, William (1551-1623)

Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland ... the second edition. London: Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, 1722.

Handsomely bound copy of the second edition of Gibson's translation with many revisions to Morden's maps first issued in 1695. The single map of Scotland has been replaced by two separate maps showing the northern and southern parts of the country, while the map of North Wales is entirely new. Chubb CXV; Shirley BL T.CAMD-5c.



2 volumes, folio (391 x 245mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, titles printed in red and black, 9 engraved plates of coins, 51 engraved double-page, or double-page and folding, maps by Robert Morden, engraved views in the text of Stonehenge on I.Q1r, the Rollright Stones on I.2O2v, engraved inscription on I.3Q2v and a prototype of a guillotine on II.5P2r, numerous woodcut text illustrations (I.a1 with tiny chip to lower corner and some faint dust-soiling, I.Q1 with printing flaw affecting two letters in headline, tiny marginal chip due to paper flaw in map of Surrey, very short old paper repairs on verso to maps of Cambridgeshire and Cumberland without loss, II.5D1 with corner chipped, a number of leaves dogeared, II.5K1 with tiny rust spot obscuring a couple of letters, occasional faint insignificant soiling). Later 18th-century half green morocco over marbled-paper covered boards, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco gilt labels (endpapers renewed, recased and furbished, extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: William Wollaston (1731-1797, of Finsborough Hall, Suffolk, MP for Ipswich; engraved armorial bookplates visible under pastedowns) – William Middleton (1784-1860, small booklabels of monogram surmounted with crest).





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