Lambarde (William). A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare 1570, by William Lambard of Lincolnes innne Gent. and nowe increased by the addition of somethings which the Authour him selfe hath observed since that time, London: Henry Middleton for Ralphe Newberie, 1576, title with decorative woodcut outer border, lacking the full-page woodcut map of the Anglia? Heptarchy and one other, also four leaves of text missing, including the duplicate leaf H2, paginated 58/59 containing the list of names of Kentish writers, historiated and floriated woodcut initials, running headlines occasionally close-trimmed with slight loss, bookplate of W. J. Allen and James Hobbs to front pastedown, attractive 19th century blind-decorated full calf, gilt spine with gilt black morocco title label, a little rubbed, small 4to (Quantity: 1) STC 15175; Upcott p. 350 for the second edition. First edition of the first English county history, containing a list of the nobility and gentry from the Herald's Visitation in 1574, omitted from later editions. Considered to be a model of topographical writing by William Camden.
Lambarde (William). A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare 1570, by William Lambard of Lincolnes innne Gent. and nowe increased by the addition of somethings which the Authour him selfe hath observed since that time, London: Henry Middleton for Ralphe Newberie, 1576, title with decorative woodcut outer border, lacking the full-page woodcut map of the Anglia? Heptarchy and one other, also four leaves of text missing, including the duplicate leaf H2, paginated 58/59 containing the list of names of Kentish writers, historiated and floriated woodcut initials, running headlines occasionally close-trimmed with slight loss, bookplate of W. J. Allen and James Hobbs to front pastedown, attractive 19th century blind-decorated full calf, gilt spine with gilt black morocco title label, a little rubbed, small 4to (Quantity: 1) STC 15175; Upcott p. 350 for the second edition. First edition of the first English county history, containing a list of the nobility and gentry from the Herald's Visitation in 1574, omitted from later editions. Considered to be a model of topographical writing by William Camden.
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