PRINTED 1637 REMAINS CONCERNING BRITAIN EARLY EDITION LEATHER VOL COMPLETE 420PP
Item History & Price
Up for auction is a hard to find edition of Remaines concerning Britaine, or Remains Concerning Britain: Their Languages. Names. Surnames. Allusions. Anagramms. Armories. Moneys. Impresses. Apparel. Artillerie. Wise Speeches. Proverbs. Poesies. Epitaphs. Written by William Camden Esquire, Glarenceux, King of Arms, Surnamed the Learned. The Seventh Impression, much amended, with many rare Antiquities never before imprinted. Printed in 1637 by Thomas Harper for John Waterson, and sold at... his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the sign of the Crowne 1637.
This is not the first edition but a fairly early copy. Bound in its original leather cover the book is complete with 420 pages, original end papers engraving introduction title page and finis page plus end papers. The condition is acceptable the covers are rough edge wear on leather spine missing pieces top and bottom.
The hinge is cracked and several sheets are lose some other sections are starting to come away from the binding. On the other hand the book could be rebound or restored. Interesting a small vellum manuscript was found in the binding and I believe contemporary with the date of the book.It seems to match one of the former owners signatures on the blank end paper. Any questions or comments feel free to ask.
FYI: This week I will list a small collection of antique books, and handwritten manuscripts.
( Many are listed now.) Keep an eye on my auctions, and feel free to bookmark my eBay page. As always any questions are more than welcome.
Remaines Concerning Britain
Camden's Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine was a collection of themed historical essays, conceived as a more popular companion to Britannia. This was the only book Camden wrote in English, and, contrary to his own misleading description of it in the first edition (1605) as being merely the "rude rubble and out-cast rubbish" of a greater and more serious work (i.e. Britannia), manuscript evidence clearly indicates that he planned this book early on and as a quite separate project. Remaines subsequently ran into many editions. The standard modern edition, edited by R. D. Dunn, is based on the surviving manuscript material and the three editions published in Camden's lifetime (1605, 1614, and 1623). Editions published after 1623 are unreliable and contain unauthentic material, especially the bowdlerized edition of 1636 by John Philipot. Thomas Moule's edition of 1870, of which many copies survive, is based on Philipot's 1674 edition.
Camden's Remaines is often the earliest or sole usage cited for a word in the Oxford English Dictionary; and further significant early usages (including new words and antedatings) have since been identified. Remaines also contains the first-ever alphabetical list of English proverbs, since heavily exploited by the editors of the principal modern dictionaries of proverbs (including those of Burton Stevenson (1949), M. P. Tilley (1950) and the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, edited by F. P. Wilson (1970)). Scattered through the book are a number of additional proverbs not recorded elsewhere.
This is not the first edition but a fairly early copy. Bound in its original leather cover the book is complete with 420 pages, original end papers engraving introduction title page and finis page plus end papers. The condition is acceptable the covers are rough edge wear on leather spine missing pieces top and bottom.
The hinge is cracked and several sheets are lose some other sections are starting to come away from the binding. On the other hand the book could be rebound or restored. Interesting a small vellum manuscript was found in the binding and I believe contemporary with the date of the book.It seems to match one of the former owners signatures on the blank end paper. Any questions or comments feel free to ask.
FYI: This week I will list a small collection of antique books, and handwritten manuscripts.
( Many are listed now.) Keep an eye on my auctions, and feel free to bookmark my eBay page. As always any questions are more than welcome.
Remaines Concerning Britain
Camden's Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine was a collection of themed historical essays, conceived as a more popular companion to Britannia. This was the only book Camden wrote in English, and, contrary to his own misleading description of it in the first edition (1605) as being merely the "rude rubble and out-cast rubbish" of a greater and more serious work (i.e. Britannia), manuscript evidence clearly indicates that he planned this book early on and as a quite separate project. Remaines subsequently ran into many editions. The standard modern edition, edited by R. D. Dunn, is based on the surviving manuscript material and the three editions published in Camden's lifetime (1605, 1614, and 1623). Editions published after 1623 are unreliable and contain unauthentic material, especially the bowdlerized edition of 1636 by John Philipot. Thomas Moule's edition of 1870, of which many copies survive, is based on Philipot's 1674 edition.
Camden's Remaines is often the earliest or sole usage cited for a word in the Oxford English Dictionary; and further significant early usages (including new words and antedatings) have since been identified. Remaines also contains the first-ever alphabetical list of English proverbs, since heavily exploited by the editors of the principal modern dictionaries of proverbs (including those of Burton Stevenson (1949), M. P. Tilley (1950) and the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, edited by F. P. Wilson (1970)). Scattered through the book are a number of additional proverbs not recorded elsewhere.
