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The description of Britain, translated from Richard of Cirencester

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The description of Britain, translated from Richard of Cirencester
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. xxiii, [1] (blank), 166, 127, [1], f. [1] (blank), [2] (plates),). Signatures: [a]8 b4 B-L8 M3 A8 C-H8 I4 K4. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">Half morocco. Gilt filets and gilded spine.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Includes maps, folded plates, facsimile. The first folded map is signed by C. Bertramus, with imprint "Printed for White &amp; Co. Horace's Head Fleet Street June 1. 1809." The second map has same imprint but is signed "Neele sc. Strand." </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">"De situ Britanniae" has a separate half-title page. Printed footnotes. Heavily annotated by Thomas Leman (1751-1826) and apparently his own copy. Plate of E. Wyatt Edgell. Leaf of manuscript notes inserted between pp. 148-149, was removed and is available at Manuscript 431 at Special Collections Department (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University). Translated by Henry Hatcher. The commentary is by Thomas Leman (British Museum catalogue).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">"De situ Britanniae", by Charles Bertram, was a forgery claimed by him to have been copied from a Latin manuscript written by the fourteenth-century monk ‘Richard of Cirencester,’ in which he described his itinerary through Britain.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103113" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>

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