Author: SPEED, JOHN, 1552?-1629
Title: An Epitomie of Mr. John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain
Description: And are to bee sould by Georg Humble at ye White-horse in popeshead Alley, C. 1670 . 0. Dis-bound book without the maps. 10.3cm high x 15.5cm long x 2.3cm thick. Landscape format. Rear board and spine still attached. Page signatures begin on A2 and end on Z7. Unfortunately all maps have been removed, so I estimate there are 64 leaves absent. Pages toned. First few leaves (and the last leaves as well), with small edge loss. ** Referenced by: STC (2nd ed.) 23035 / S103213 *** "John Speed (1552?-1629) was one of the most important early English cartographers. His Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine was first published in 1612 and many times thereafter, both as a folio-sized volume and eventually as a smaller book, called An Epitome of . [the] Theatre, easy to hold in the hand or carry in a pouch.

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