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CAMDEN, William (1551-1623). Britannia, or a Chronological Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Adjacent Islands ... Fourth Edition. London: for W. Bowyer [and others], 1772.
2 volumes, 2 (417 x 261mm). Engraved forntispiece portrait of the author by R. White, 50 double-page engraved maps by Robert Morden, 2 folding, 10 engraved plates of coins and antiquities, numerous woodcut and engraved illustrations. (Small old worm track affecting endpapers at front of vol. I and margin of frontispiece and margin of title-page, a few leaves spotted.) Contemporary polished speckled calf (extremities rubbed, hinges weak, head and foot of spines chipped). Provenance: Woolsington (armorial bookplate); Paul Howard Beves (bookplate). Chubb CXVII. (2)
2 volumes, 2 (417 x 261mm). Engraved forntispiece portrait of the author by R. White, 50 double-page engraved maps by Robert Morden, 2 folding, 10 engraved plates of coins and antiquities, numerous woodcut and engraved illustrations. (Small old worm track affecting endpapers at front of vol. I and margin of frontispiece and margin of title-page, a few leaves spotted.) Contemporary polished speckled calf (extremities rubbed, hinges weak, head and foot of spines chipped). Provenance: Woolsington (armorial bookplate); Paul Howard Beves (bookplate). Chubb CXVII. (2)