Camden, William / Gough, Richard.

BRITANNIA : Or, A Chorographical Description of the flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland And Ireland, AND THE ISLANDS ADJACENT; From The Earliest Antiquity by William Camden. Translated from the Edition Published by the Author in MDCVII. Enlarged by the latest Discoveries by Richard Gough [with mentioning of “Rare Plants found in each County”]. [Volume IV including Ireland and its Counties with a Map of Ireland as well as Illustrations, such as “The Iodhan Morain” (or “Breast-Plate of Judgment of the Irish Druids”) or “The Charter Horn” and Chapters like: “The Antient and Modern Manners of the Irish”, “The Annals of Ireland”, with a Chapter on the History of “Cork” (with in depth mentioning of the Mc Marthy’s in Carbury and the O Driscol in Cork etc.)]. Illustrated with 57 double-page Maps and 106 full-page Plates (copper-engravings) and several Text-Illustrations [among them a fantastic illustration of Stonehenge].

The Second Edition. In Four Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1806. Large Folio (29 cm wide x 44 cm high). Pagination of all four Volumes follows here: Volume I: Frontispice-Portrait, CCVI, 415 pages plus 27 unnumbered pages of an Index, plus 1 unnumbered page with Instructions/Locations at where the Plates and Maps are placed in Volume One / Volume II: IV, [1], 518 pages plus 28 unnumberd pages of an Index / Volume III: IV, [1], 527 pages plus 27 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume IV: IV, 570 pages plus 30 unnumbered pages of an Index // Hardcover / Recently professionally rebound in modern half-leather, bound to style of the early 19th century with gilt ornament and lettering. This is special set of the BRITANNIA, from the library of “THE ATHENAEUM” in Liverpool, received as a gift from the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, to which the set was “Presented by J.T.Danson, V.P. in the year 1856”. Very good condition with only minor signs of foxing. A spectacular set with some minor discoloration to the edge of Volume I.

Please see below, as an example, the detailed description of contents of Volume I only !
The depth of materials in Volume One alone, shows you the extend of information, illustration and cartography you will find in all four Volumes together.

Placing of Plates and Maps in the second Edition of Richard Gough’s expanded Edition of William Camden’s BRITANNIA:

Volume I:

PLATES in Volume One:

Frontispiece: Portrait of Mr. [William] Camden
Autographs (on Letter-Press): Page XXX [Includes the facsimile of the handwriting of William Camden and his friend Robert Cotton]
British Coins: Page CXIII [Lists 58 examples of Coins (front and back) as well as four examples of Coin-casts]
Roman Coins (Plate I): Page CXVIII [Lists 28 examples of Coins (front and back)]
Roman Coins (Plate II): Page CXX [Lists Silver Coins from the Isle of Thanet / A Silver Ingot, Two Rings found on Stanmore Common]
Saxon Coins [Plate I]: Page CLXIX [Lists 63 examples of Coins (front and back)]
Saxon Coins Plate II: Page CLXXII [Lists 57 examples of Coins (front and back)]
Urns: Page CCVI [Lists 24 examples of Urns]
Celts: [Page verso Page CCVI] (ib) [Lists 16 examples of Celtic Artefacts of Axes, Tools and Casts]

Further PLATES in Volume One:

I. Plate: Page 16:
[Plate I shows “Coffin-fashioned-Tom-Stones” / “Bronze-Age Stone-circle at Boscawen-Un” / The “Wringcheese” and the “Hurlers”]

II. and III. Plate: Page 88 [false !, correct is both Plates were bound in opposite page 68]:
[Plate II shows the Iron Age Hill-Fort of “Maiden Castle” and the “Cerne Abbas Giant” [origin between the years 700 CE and 1110 CE]
[Plate III shows “Plan of the Roman Amphitheatre near Dorchester” and a “Plan of Poundbury, a Camp near Dorchester”]

IV. Plate: Page 93:
[Plate IV shows calculations between “Stanton Drew Stone Circle” [called “The Wedding”] near Bristol and Bath and “Hakim’s coit″
and also “exhibits a View of these circles in their present state (1806) from the corner of Bejamin Donne’s four-sheet map of the county round Bristol”]

V. Plate: Page 97:
[Plate V shows among thers, an inscribed Jewel of Gold inscribed “AELFRED MEL HEHT LEWYRCAN” , now housed in the Ashmolean]

VI. and VII. Plate: Page 114:
[Plate V. and VII show the “Ground Plot of the Roman Bath, discovered in the City of Bath, 1755” and the excavations at the time]

VIII. Plate: Page 117:
[Plate VIII shows inscriptions found at the site of the Discovery of the Roman Baths in 1755” (Plate VIII is a large fold-out-plate)]

IX. Plate: Page 146 [false !, correct is Plate IX was bound in facing Page 149]:
[Plate IX shows the “Yanesbury Camp”, “Bratten Castle” and other illustrations]

X. Plate: Page 152:
[Plate X shows the “Plan & Elevations of Old Sarum”, the earliest settlement of Salisbury]

XI. Plate: Page 153:
[Plate XI shows Inscriptions and Tombs at Salisbury]

XII. Plate: Page 155:
[Plate XII shows a wonderful image of Stonehenge and beneath it four theories of its original positioning and the theories by Wood and Inigo Jones (″conceited Stonehenge to be a Tuscan temple of Coelum or Terminus”), Dr. Smith (″who showed that the outer circles of 30 stones, multiplied by 12 signs of the Zodiac represents the ancient solar year of 360 days”) and Dr. Stukeley (who called the stones “Trilithons” and in the year “1723, dug on the inside of the altar to a bed of solid chalk , mixed with flints”)]

XIII. Plate: Page 158:
[Plate XIII shows possibly King Alfred and the “White Horse”, which commemorates his Victory in Berkshire against the Danes]

XIV. Plate: Page 204:
[Plate XIV shows the Plan of the Roman City of “Sylchester” (Silchester) and some Antiquities found in and around it]

XV. Plate: Page 277:
[Plate XV shows St.John’s Church in Lewes (East Sussex) and some inscriptions inside mentioning Edmund and Godwin]

XVI. Plate: Page 336:
[Plate XVI shows “The Warren” at Addington and Examples from the Hoard of Jewellery found at Ash, near Sandwich]

XVII. Plate: Page 344:
[Plate XVII shows several Antiquities and inscriptions found in Canterbury]

XVIII. Plate: Page 395:
[Plate XVIII shows a part of the beautiful, “tesselated pavement [at Woodchester]….uncovered on the digging of Graves in the Churchyard”]

MAPS in Volume One:

1. Original Map of Britannia Romana: to face Page CXXII:
[″Britannia Romana, collected from Ptolemy, Antonines Itinerary, the Notitia and Inscriptions. And a List of “British People mentioned by Ptolemy” (Ptolemy mentions 36 Tribes, e.g.: I. Atrebatii, II Belgae, III Brigantes. IV Caledonii etc. etc. up to XXXVI Venicontes)]

2. Original Map of Saxon England: Page CLXI:
[″Saxon England according to the Saxon Chronicles” with 6 pages (!) of “Explanations of the Saxon Map”]

3. Original Map of England [and Ireland] with the Judges’ Circuits: preceding the Chapter “The Law-Courts of England” – Page CC:
[″Great Britain and Ireland with ye Judges Circuits” and inset-maps of the Shetland Islands” as well as the Western Isles: “Lewis, Harris, North Vist and South Vist” and “Explanation to know the Distance of ye Cities &c. as Ipswich to Huntington see I.[Ipswich] on ye Top & H. [Huntington] on ye Side, & carry a line or your sight to ye Square where both Meet, which gives ye No. of Miles” – “Note, Distances from & to London in Measured, ye rest Computed Miles”]

4. and 5. Original Map of England and Wales (with Cornwall) (These are actually two (2) large, folded Maps, bound in subsequently): Page 1:
[Map 4: “An Accurate Map of England and Wales – From the Best Authorities” – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]
[Map 5: “A Map of Cornwall (with an inset-map of “Scilly Island”) from the Best Authorities” – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

6. Original Map of Devonshire: Page 33 (followed by two pages listing “Rare Plants found in Devonshire”):
[Map 6: “A Map of Devonshire from the Best Authorities” – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

7. Original Map of Dorsetshire: Page 59:
[Map 7: “A Map of Dorsetshire from the Best Authorities” – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

8. Original Map of Somersetshire: Page 77:
[Map 8: “A Map of Somersetshire from the Best Authorities” – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

9. Original Map of Wiltshire: Page 129:
[Map 9: “″A Map of Wiltshire from the Best Authorities – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

10. Original Map of Hampshire: Page 165:
[Map 10: “A Map of Hampshire from the Best Authorities – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

11. Original Map of Berkshire: Page 213:
[Map 11: “A Map of Berkshire from the Best Authorities – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

12. Original Map of Surrey: Page 241:
[Map 12: “A Map of Surry [sic] from the Best Authorities – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

13. Original Map of Sussex: Page 267:
[Map 13: “A Map of Sussex from the Best Authorities – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

14. Original Map of Kent: Page 307:
[Map 14: “A Map of Kent from the Best Authorities – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

15. Original Map of Gloucestershire: Page 379:
[Map 15: “A Map of Glocestershire [sic] from the Best Authorities – Published by John Stockdale 26th March, 1805 – Engraved by J. Cary”]

Omitted text-illustration:

Volume I: Page 135, showing a beautiful engraving of “Stonehenge”:

″About six miles from Salisbury, to the north on the plain, is what Cicero would call “insana substructio, a “wild structure”, a number of monstrous rude stones, some of them twenty-eight feet high and seven broad, placed in three concentric circles surrounded by a ditch : some of them lie across, as architraves, on the tops of the others ; so that it seems like a hanging work, whence we call it “Stonehenge”, and our antient historians “Choir Gawr”, the “Dance of the Giants”, from its size. But, as no description can do it justice, I have annexed here a print of it. [Footnotes read: “Mr.Camden’s print being probably copied frm an older dated 1575, with the initials R.F. which may be presumed the oldest engraving of this monument, we have thought it adviseable to give the older print a place here….”] / [″Tradition says Aurelius Ambrosius, or his brother Uther, by the assistance of Merlin’s mathematical knowledge, erected these Stones in memory of the Britans treacherously murdered there at their interview with the Saxons” – This text is placed on page 135, under the illustration, and is followed by the original Latin Poem (and its translation int english) by Alexander Necham writes about the Stones, inspired from Geoffrey of Monmouth”]

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