Author: Speed, John.
Title: England Wales Scotland and Ireland described and abridged with [the] historic relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger voulume done by Iohn Speed.
Description: [London]: [Printed by John Dawson] And are to bee sould by Georg Humble, at [the] Whithorse in popeshead Alley, Anno cum priuilegio 1627 [i.e. 1632?]. 0. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. [376]pp. In this edition, A2v line 14 of text ends: "behoue-". Title-page engraved; no full stop at end of title. Half green morocco over marbled boards. All edges marbled red. The marbled endpapers match the marbled boards. With 63 plates of maps, two of which are folding. The map of 'Midia', although listed as no. 64 in the contents table, is omitted and was never published. 40 of the maps are printed from Pieter van den Keere's plates of 1599 or later with some re-engraving. The 23 new maps are generally cruder in execution and do not seem to be from Van den Keere's hand. [See Skelton 17 & 19]. With the bookplate of J. Davis Barnett. ESTC S117733; STC (2nd ed), 23036; Skelton, R.A. County atlases of the British Isles, 19. An abridgement of: Speed, John. The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine, the text of which is mainly based on: Camden, William. Britannia. This is the second in a series of 'pocket editions' of Speed's atlas. The type setting is different from the first pocket edition (STC 23035; Skelton 17) but the title-page and the maps are printed from the same plates. This edition was probably issued in 1632. A very good copy. Very Good.

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