Britannia
Subtitle: or, A chorographical description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the adjacent islands
By: Written in Latin by William Camden, Clarenceux, King at Arms: ; and translated into English, with additions and improvements. ; Revised, digested and published with large additions by Edmund Gibson, D.D. late Lord Bishop of London
Contributors: Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748; Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797, bookseller; Hitch, Charles, -1764, bookseller; Browne, Daniel, -1762, bookseller; Lintot, Henry, 1703-1758, bookseller; Davis, Charles, -1755, bookseller; Hodges, James, Sir, -1774, bookseller; Millar, Andrew, 1705-1768, bookseller; Bowyer, William, 1699-1777, bookseller; Whiston, John, 1711-1780, bookseller; Ware, Richard (Bookseller), bookseller; Ward, John, -1760, bookseller; White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver; Kip, Johannes, 1653-1722, engraver; Nicholls, Sutton, engraver; Sturt, John, 1658-1730, engraver; Morden, Robert, approximately 1650-1703, illustrator; Morden, Robert, approximately 1650-1703, engraver, attributed name; Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, translator; Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of, 1718-1778, former owner; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner; John and James Rivington (Firm); John and Paul Knapton (Firm)
Edition: The third edition. / Illustrated with maps of all the counties, and prints of the British, Roman, and Saxon coins.
Publisher: Printed for R. Ware, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, C. Hitch, D. Browne, H. Lintot, C. Davis. J. Hodges, A. Millar, W. Bowyer, J. Whiston, J. and J. Rivington, and J. Ward.
Published: 1753
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1526
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Description and travel; Antiquities; Travel
Other titles: Chorographical description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the adjacent islands; Camden's Britannia
Work titles: Britannia
Notes: Title in red and black.

Pagination is continuous.

Main text printed in two columns, index printed in three.

Translated into English by Dr. Philemon Holland.

"Insertions made by Dr. Holland, in his English translation of Mr. Camden's Britannia ... ": v.2, p. [1]-[36] at end.

"The life of Mr. Camden": v.1, p.[19]-[36].

Signatures: v.1: A²( -A2) B-6Z²; v.2: A²( -A2) B-K² Z² M-7L².

Includes unpaginated appendix and index at end of v.2; these sections and those for "Ireland", "Scotland" and the adjacent islands have divisional half-titles.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Error in pagination: col. 738 misnumbered as 378.

Engraved frontispiece portrait of Camden signed: R. White, sculp.; other plates signed: I. Kip, sculp., Sutton Nicholls, sculp., Iohn Sturt, sculp.; maps drawn and possibly engraved by Robert Morden.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Robert D'Arcy, Earl of Holdernesse, with his armorial bookplate.

Rare Book copy: From the library of George A. Plimpton, with his bookplate.

Includes bibliographical references.

English short title catalogue, T145183

BM, v. 32, p. 612

Gift; George A. Plimpton

A translation of the author's "Britannia", first published in Latin in 1586.

Rare Book copy: Both volumes bound in full brown leather, with gold-tooled spine and board edges and with lettering pieces on spine.