Angliae notitia, or, The present state of England
Subtitle: together with divers reflections upon the antient state thereof
By: by Edward Chamberlayne ...
Contributors: Welby, Reginald Earle Welby, Baron, 1832-1915, former owner.; Dasent, Arthur Irwin, 1859-1939, former owner.
Edition: The third edition, corrected, and much augmented.
Publisher: In the Savoy, printed by T.N. for John Martyn ...
Published: 1669
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1714.
Other titles: Angliae notitia.; Present state of England.
Notes: STC C1821
Signatures: A⁶ B-X¹².
Includes index.
LC copy has cancelled armorial bookplate of the [British] Treasury Library. Ms. note tipped in before the t.p., "Arthur Irwin Dasent 1886. The first and second editions of Chamberlayne's Anglia notitia were also issued in 1669; the work having proved so popular as to demand three editions in one year. Slight variations occur in the text of the second and third editions as at pages 261 and 412. The portrait of King Charles 2nd was not added till some years later. The copy of the 6th edition (1672) in the Guildhall Library contains the portrait" Ink stamps on front free endpaper: Treasury Library Lord Welby Bequest; Combined Library Treasury and Cabinet Office Gt. George St., London, S.W. 1. Name in ink on t.p.: Henry Bradshawe. Preliminaries misbound with leaf A4 before A3. In signed binding by Eyre & Spottiswoode.
Source: Purchase, Sept. 05, 1991 (DLC #0206937).