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Camden William - Remaines concerning Britaine
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But especially England, and the Inhabitants thereof. Their Languages, Names, Surnames, Allusions, Anagrammes, Armories, Monies, Empreses, Apparell, Artillarie, Wise Speeches, Proverbs, Poetries, Epitaphes, Revised, corrected, and encreased. Printed at London by John Legatt for Simon Waterson, second edition 1614 (first edition 1605) (4) 386pp, later calf and EPs, ex owners names and details in ink to front endpaper, marginalia and annotations, front end paper and title page with small repair to upper right corner. Shakespeare mentioned on page 44, TP with woodcut device of Alma Mater of Cantabrigia. A clean sturdy copy of this antiquarian miscellany, first published in 1605 and one of the earliest attempts systematically to study Britain and its past, including facts & anecdotes about names, clothing, money, artillery & language etc.
