Author

BLOME, Richard.

Title

Britannia:
or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging. And for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with. Illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones. The like never before published.

Published, Date

Printed by Tho. Roycroft for the undertaker, Richard Blome, London1673.

Description

First edition. folio (36.5 x 24.5 cm), [14], 464, pp., bound without final leaf ("Benefactors to this work ..."), 24 pages (on 13 leaves) of coats-of-arms (22 in contemporary hand-colour), 1 leaf in black-and-white supplied from a shorter copy, last leaf frayed; large folding general map, 45 folding county maps (21 hand-coloured, 1 duplicate (Isle of Wight)), North Riding with short split along plate mark and slight fraying to margins, single-sheeet map of London, 5 large folding maps (Wales 2 plus 1 duplicate, Scotland, Ireland); modern calf gilt antique.

References

Chubb XCIX; Skelton 90; Wing B3207.

Stock Number

85447