CAMDEN, William (1551-1623). Britannia, sive Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium . London: George Bishop and John Norton 1607.
CAMDEN, William (1551-1623). Britannia, sive Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium . London: George Bishop and John Norton 1607. 2° (345 x 223mm.). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 57 hand-coloured engraved maps by William Kip and William Hole after John Norden Christopher Saxton and George Owen most double-page, 8 full-page woodcut illustrations of coins, other woodcut illustrations, ornaments and initials, all hand-coloured. (Some waterstaining to text leaves, mostly marginal but more pronounced from p.555 to p.620, frontispiece soiled at margins, a minority of maps including Cornwall, Denbigh, Flint, Westmoreland and Hibernia, browned at edges, map of Derby with repaired marginal tears, Anglesey with blank piece torn from margin, Hibernia slightly soiled in margin.) Contemporary calf gilt, covers with double panel enclosing gilt armorial, gilt spine and board edges (some restoration, covers rubbed and chipped with losses). Provenance : Sir John Rivers (c.1579-c.1651, binding) -- Sir John Bankes (1589-1644, signature on title) -- Henry Bankes of Lincoln's Inn (inscription on front free endpaper; thence by descent through the Bankes family to:) -- Richard Henry Wingfield Digby (of Sherborne, Dorset, his ownership inscription dated 2 January 1857 and subsequently 1864, with note recording: 'This book was bought by me from Mr. Shipp Bookseller Blandford who took it in exchange for new books from the late L.G. Bankes of Kingston Lacey ... has on the title page the autograph of Sir John Bankes ... Justice temp. Charles I & husband of Lady Bankes who so nobly defended Corfe Castle for that unfortunate prince'). ALL MAPS WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING. This was the first edition of Camden's Britannia to be published with county maps, and the colouring was presumably done for the book's first owner, Sir John Rivers, whose crest of a bull decorates the binding. He was the son of Sir George Rivers, and grandson of Sir John Rivers, Lord Mayor of London [see Davenport p. 324]. Sir John Bankes, who presumably received the book from Rivers, was wealthy enough to purchase Corfe Castle in 1635, having been made attorney general a year earlier. His wife, the former Mary Hawtrey, famously defended the castle during the first of its two sieges. Brunet I, 1510; Chubb XVIII; Lowndes p. 356; Skelton 5; STC 4508.
CAMDEN, William (1551-1623). Britannia, sive Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium . London: George Bishop and John Norton 1607.
CAMDEN, William (1551-1623). Britannia, sive Florentissimorum regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium . London: George Bishop and John Norton 1607. 2° (345 x 223mm.). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 57 hand-coloured engraved maps by William Kip and William Hole after John Norden Christopher Saxton and George Owen most double-page, 8 full-page woodcut illustrations of coins, other woodcut illustrations, ornaments and initials, all hand-coloured. (Some waterstaining to text leaves, mostly marginal but more pronounced from p.555 to p.620, frontispiece soiled at margins, a minority of maps including Cornwall, Denbigh, Flint, Westmoreland and Hibernia, browned at edges, map of Derby with repaired marginal tears, Anglesey with blank piece torn from margin, Hibernia slightly soiled in margin.) Contemporary calf gilt, covers with double panel enclosing gilt armorial, gilt spine and board edges (some restoration, covers rubbed and chipped with losses). Provenance : Sir John Rivers (c.1579-c.1651, binding) -- Sir John Bankes (1589-1644, signature on title) -- Henry Bankes of Lincoln's Inn (inscription on front free endpaper; thence by descent through the Bankes family to:) -- Richard Henry Wingfield Digby (of Sherborne, Dorset, his ownership inscription dated 2 January 1857 and subsequently 1864, with note recording: 'This book was bought by me from Mr. Shipp Bookseller Blandford who took it in exchange for new books from the late L.G. Bankes of Kingston Lacey ... has on the title page the autograph of Sir John Bankes ... Justice temp. Charles I & husband of Lady Bankes who so nobly defended Corfe Castle for that unfortunate prince'). ALL MAPS WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING. This was the first edition of Camden's Britannia to be published with county maps, and the colouring was presumably done for the book's first owner, Sir John Rivers, whose crest of a bull decorates the binding. He was the son of Sir George Rivers, and grandson of Sir John Rivers, Lord Mayor of London [see Davenport p. 324]. Sir John Bankes, who presumably received the book from Rivers, was wealthy enough to purchase Corfe Castle in 1635, having been made attorney general a year earlier. His wife, the former Mary Hawtrey, famously defended the castle during the first of its two sieges. Brunet I, 1510; Chubb XVIII; Lowndes p. 356; Skelton 5; STC 4508.
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