Britannia, siue, Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica desciptio

OTHER:

Price on slip reads L350.

PROVENANCE:

Nine owners, including Bulkely, identified. Mr Stewart, Isle of Man (bookplate), J.G. E. Hopkins (bookplate), Eric Sexton F.S.A. (small bookplate), S. Louise Lagden, N.Y. City (Inscription), John Lillie (inscription), WBaynting - Gray's Inn (inscription); Centre of Ref. and Ren. Hoeniger Book Fund (bookplate).

CONDITION:

Wormed throughout, bottom left near gutter.

MS NOTES:

Some m.s. throughout.

INSCRIPTION:

Author's presentation copy, inscribed: "Liber Edwardi Bulkelei ex dono ipsius authoris G. Camdeni amicus multis nominibus mihi carissimi." Edward Bulkely, prebandary of Lichfield (Camden's hometown).

BINDING:

Binding is a later 19th cent. brown leather. Spine reads Camdeni Britannia Londini 1587

FORMAT:

[14], 648, [20] p. ; 17 cm. (8vo). A8 - Vv8, separate t.p. at Oo1 [$4, -A1]