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RICHARD BLOME (d. 1705)
Britannia: or, a Geographical Description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging, London: Thomas Roycroft for Richard Blome, 1673. 2° (357 x 220mm.). Title printed in red and black, 24 plates on 12 sheets with 807 hand-coloured engraved coats-of-arms, 50 hand-coloured engraved maps, some folding. (Map of Buckinghamshire with short marginal tear, folding map of Ireland with short tear along fold, occasional light mainly marginal browning, a few spots). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Mountagu Garrard Drake of Sharddois (armorial bookplate on verso of title); John Walter (later pencil inscription on front pastedown).
FIRST EDITION. Lowndes I, 218: "A 'most entire piece of theft out of Camden and Speed.' - Bp. Nicolson"; Skelton 90; Smith pp. 106-07.
Britannia: or, a Geographical Description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging, London: Thomas Roycroft for Richard Blome, 1673. 2° (357 x 220mm.). Title printed in red and black, 24 plates on 12 sheets with 807 hand-coloured engraved coats-of-arms, 50 hand-coloured engraved maps, some folding. (Map of Buckinghamshire with short marginal tear, folding map of Ireland with short tear along fold, occasional light mainly marginal browning, a few spots). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Mountagu Garrard Drake of Sharddois (armorial bookplate on verso of title); John Walter (later pencil inscription on front pastedown).
FIRST EDITION. Lowndes I, 218: "A 'most entire piece of theft out of Camden and Speed.' - Bp. Nicolson"; Skelton 90; Smith pp. 106-07.
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