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2 volumes. [66] pp., cclxviii columns, [2] pp., 696 columns; [2], 697-1526 columns, [177] pp. Title pages in red and black. Engraved portrait frontispiece; 10 engraved plates of coins; 51 engraved folding or double-page maps; additional engravings and woodcut illustrations in text. (Folio) 39.5x24.5 cm. (15½x9¾") early full paneled calf. Second Edition of this translation.

This edition translated and edited by Edmund Gibson and with maps by Robert Morden. "The first edition of Camden's Britannia came out in 1586....By 1623 it had been reprinted half-a-dozen times and was already twice its original size....If Camden was not the first English historian (in the modern sense of the word), topographer, and antiquarian, he was certainly the first to relate the three studies, and his Britannia, primarily topographical, is the first book which shows, even in a rudimentary form the need to evaluate sources. It was the revolutionary subject matter, and its even more revolutionary treatment of the subject, which made it at once the vehicle and the model for research in all three subjects for the next two hundred and fifty years." (PMM). Printing and the Mind of Man, 101 (for first edition); ESTC T144701.