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England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged with ye Historic Relation of things worthy memory from a farr Larger Voulume Done by John Speed by SPEED, John - 1627

by SPEED, John

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England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged with ye Historic Relation of things worthy memory from a farr Larger Voulume Done by John Speed by SPEED, John - 1627

England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged with ye Historic Relation of things worthy memory from a farr Larger Voulume Done by John Speed

by SPEED, John

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[London?]: And are to bee sould by Georg Humble at y Whit horse in popeshead alley, 1627. Second Miniature Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Unpaginated. 10 x 16 cm. 63 maps, 2 of which fold out. Engraved title page. Bound in half green leather with marbled boards. All edges red. Matching marbled endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown. A few ink marks on first page of Sussex. Damp stain at top of first page of Bedfordshire, map opposite, and a few surrounding pages. Small worm tracks in top margins of pages from Shropshire to Yorkshire.Ink underlining on last pge of Man Iland. Otherwise only occasional spots or thumbing.

A beautiful copy of this miniature atlas with all maps present. The index calls for a 64th map called "Midia" but this was never issued in this edition. This is the second miniature edition of Speed's atlas of Great Britain and Ireland following the edition of 1620. The "farr Larger Voulume Done by John Speed" refers to the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611) issued in folio. For the first miniature edition of 1620 forty of the maps were reprints of Peter Keer's maps of 1599 issued at Amsterdam in 1617 for William Camden's Viri clarissimi Britannia.
  • Bookseller Attic Books CA (CA)
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  • Book Condition Used - Near fine
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  • Edition Second Miniature Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher And are to bee sould by Georg Humble at y Whit horse in popeshead alley
  • Place of Publication [London?]
  • Date Published 1627
  • Keywords Britain, maps, atlas, reference

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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.

by Speed, John

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[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?].. Hardcover. Very Good. 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… Read More
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