CAMDEN, William (1551-1623). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland ... The Second Edition, edited by Edmund Gibson, 1722. 2 volumes, 2° (380 x 245mm.). Engraved portrait frontispiece, titles printed in red and black, 10 engraved plates and 51 maps by Robert Morden, 4 folding, illustrations. (Blank corner of frontispiece torn away and repaired, a few marginal repairs to titles, occasional light spotting and staining, some maps browned at centrefold, a few short tears, 2 maps bound upside-down). Contemporary calf. (Worn, covers of vol. one detached). Provenance: THOMAS GRAHAM JACKSON, ARCHITECT (armorial bookplate and signature on front free endpaper of vol. one and title of vol. II). Brunet I, 1511; Chubb CLVII; Lowndes I, 357; Skelton 117. (2)

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CAMDEN, William (1551-1623). Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland ... The Second Edition, edited by Edmund Gibson, 1722. 2 volumes, 2° (380 x 245mm.). Engraved portrait frontispiece, titles printed in red and black, 10 engraved plates and 51 maps by Robert Morden, 4 folding, illustrations. (Blank corner of frontispiece torn away and repaired, a few marginal repairs to titles, occasional light spotting and staining, some maps browned at centrefold, a few short tears, 2 maps bound upside-down). Contemporary calf. (Worn, covers of vol. one detached). Provenance: THOMAS GRAHAM JACKSON, ARCHITECT (armorial bookplate and signature on front free endpaper of vol. one and title of vol. II). Brunet I, 1511; Chubb CLVII; Lowndes I, 357; Skelton 117. (2)

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