A DISCOVERIE OF CERTAINE ERROURS PUBLISHED IN PRINT IN THE MUCH COMMENDED BRITANNIA 1594 VERY PREJUDICIAL TO THE DISCENTES AND SUCCESSIONS OF THE AUNCIENT NOBILITIE OF THIS REALME. LONDON, 1724. BOUND WITH..A SECOND DISCOUVERIE OF ERROURS Bound With A SECOND DISCOVERIE OF ERROURS PUBLISHED IN THE MUCH-COMMENDED BRITANNIA, 1594. VERY PREJUDICIALL TO THE DISCENTES AND SUCCESSIONS OF THE AUNCIENTE NOBILITIE OF THIS REALME. WITH A REPLY TO MR. CAMDEN'S APOLOGY AD LECTOREM, IN HIS FIFT EDITION, 1600.; To which are Added, The Learned Mr. Camden's Answer to this Book; and Mr. Brooke's Reply
London: Printed for James Woodman and David Lyon, in Russel-street, Covent Garden, [1594] 1723-1724. Leather-bound. Two volumes in single binding. Mottled calf with five raised bands (six compartments). Recently rebacked with smooth leather wraparound to spine. Blue, white, red and yellow feather-style marbled endpapers.
Previous owner's armorial bookplate to front pastedown (C.W.H. Sotheby -- "Ou Bien, Ou Rien"). Additional previous owner's inked signature to verso of front free endpaper (Bp -c?? of Fromere's?), and yet another previous owner's elaborate encircled signature to following blank page: ("B. Songmate"?). Even ONE MORE previous owner's manuscript signature to top right of FIRST title page (Note: there are Two title pages in front of book, and a third one at the beginning of Part II).
The SECOND title page, also in red and black, stops after mentioning Mr. Camden's Answer to this Book", which suggests after Mr. Brooke responded to Mr.Camden's response to Brooke's criticism, an additional title page was included, leaving the first one (already bound, presumably), in the book. The second title page states book" printed [in London] by J. Bettenham, for James Woodman in Bow-Street Covent-Garden".
Clean and complete inside. Red and black title pages. Contains interesting historical amendments, and a lively dialogue wherein Mr. Brooke lays into Mr. Camden, and Mr. Camden replies, then Mr. Brooke replies to Mr. Camden's reply. Printed on nice, high-quality laid bond with a 2 1/4 in. right margin, leaving room for the numerous instances of marginalia, both publisher-printed, and frequent MANUSCRIPT, in period hand. Also present are a lesser number of marginalia, in an apparently later hand. Textblock bright.
ADDITIONAL SECTIONS: Following Mr. Brooke's first volume, author Brooke inserts a concluding section, introduced as : "An inforced Conclusion" and entitled: John Leyland's New-yeeres gyft, given of him to King Henrie the viii. in the 37. yeere of his reigne, concerning his laborious Journey and search Englandes Antiquities" This, followed by "Mr. CAMDEN's ANSWER to Ralphe Brooke, Yorke HERAULT at ARMES" (pp. 3-163) and this followed by A SECOND DISCOVERIE OF ERROURS PUBLISHED IN THE MUCH-COMMENDED BRITANNIA, 1594. VERY PREJUDICIALL TO THE DISCENTES AND SUCCESSIONS OF THE AUNCIENTE NOBILITIE OF THIS REALME. WITH A REPLY TO MR. CAMDEN'S APOLOGY AD LECTOREM, IN HIS FIFT EDITION, 1600. the Appendix (pp. 165-196) The rear free endpaper directly opposite the final Appendix page shows six lines of pencilled writing and references, and has a three in x 1 in. chip to top right of page. A handsome, well-repaired copy of a fascinating completed cycle of dialogue (and ensuing bitter controversey) between one of England's most noted historians. Very Good. Item #80515
Now first published from an Original Manuscript in the Library of John Anstis, Esq; Garter King at Arms. Camden was one of Englands most famous "...antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland that relates landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history, and the Annales, ... Britannia is a [choreographic] county-by-county description of Great Britain and Ireland....a study that relates landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history. Rather than write a history, Camden wanted to describe in detail the Great Britain of the present, and to show how the traces of the past could be discerned in the existing landscape. By this method, he produced the first coherent picture of Roman Britain..." (Wikipedia).
Price: $4,500.00