Camden (William, Clarenceux King at Arms), Britannia: or a C...

Hammer

£900

Camden (William, Clarenceux King at Arms), Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands, Written in Latin [...] And Translated into English, with Additions and Improvements, Revised Digested, and Published, with large Additions, by Edmund Gibson, D.D. Rector of Lambeth; and now Bishop of Lincoln, and Dean of His Majesty's Chapel-Royal, second edition, two-volume set, London: Printed by Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, and Sold by William Taylor, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1722, pp: [xviii], [48], i-cclxviii, [2], 1-696; [ii], 697-1526, [1] (blank), [48], [36], [92], the main text paginated as double-columns, the unpaginated Annals of Ireland, Dr Holland's Insertions and the Index collated as singular pages, the whole black-ruled throughout, 52 maps (of which 2 fold-out) and 9 full-page numismatic plates, volume I with portrait frontispiece engraved by Robert White (1645-1703), title-pages black-ruled and printed in red and black, allegorical Baroque woodcut vignettes, headers, Arabesques and foliated initials, some Gothic Black Letter printing, further antiquarian illustrations throughout the text, 20th century three-tone blind-panelled calf to early 18th century style, the spines lettered in gilt, red-stained edges, folios (40cm x 26.1cm), [2]