Camden (William), translated with additions and improvements by Edmund Gibson, maps by Robert Morden:
Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Adjacent Islands.
London; William Taylor, 2nd edition thus, 1722. Two volumes, folio, contemporary calf panelled boards, neatly rebacked in period style with raised bands, the compartments panelled with gilt centres and corners, dark red lettering pieces. Volume 1: portrait frontispiece, rubricated title, 36 double page maps, 9 plates, some 30 wood engravings in text, one half-page, plus engraved initial letters, head and tail pieces, [lxiv], cclxviii [printed in two columns, so cxxxivpp], [ii], 1-696 columns so 348pp, a few leaves wormed in gutter margin with the map of Essex affected with slight loss in fold; column 437 repaired without loss; Lincolnshire map repaired without loss; some slight dust staining in upper or head margins. Volume 2: Rubricated title-page, 15 double-page maps, 1 plate, some 103 wood-engravings in text, columns 697-1526 [that is 414pp], [175]pp. Save for the very slight worming a handsome, clean, complete copy.
[Bookseller: Staniland Booksellers]
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