1805 Large John Cary Map - KENT, England - Camden\'s \"Britannia\"- Fine Condition For Sale

A superb John Cary map of \'Kent from the best Authorities\" published in Volume II to William Camden\'s \"Britannia\", enlarged by the Latest Discoveries by Richard Gough - see below.The volume was published by John Stockdale in 1809 although the map itself is dated March 1805.
Decorative title and compass rose. Key to the 61 numbered Hundreds. Later hand coloringThe map is in superb condition with vertical folds as required by the publisher to match the standard page size. Beautiful paper stock watermarked 1809. Overall page size 21.5 x 17 inches - map size 20 x 13.5 inches
Note: See more maps from this beautiful atlas priced modestly and available for combined mailing at no extra cost. Note that the folds are a positive feature of the map by authenticating the origin of publication - reproductions will not have been folded.
William CamdenFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWilliam CamdenWilliam CamdenBorn2 May 1551
London, EnglandDied9 November 1623
Chislehurst, EnglandOccupationAntiquarian, historian, topographerNationalityEnglish

William Camden(2 May 1551,London– 9 November 1623,Chislehurst) was an Englishantiquarian, historian,topographer, andherald, best known as author ofBritannia, the firstchorographicalsurvey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and theAnnales, the first detailed historical account of the reign ofElizabeth I of England.

Contents[hide]

• 1Early years
• 2Britannia
• 3Annales
• 4Remaines Concerning Britain
• 5Reges, reginae
• 6Other writings
• 7Final years
• 8Legacy
• 9Notes
• 10References
• 11External links

Early years[edit]

Camden was born in London. His father Sampson Camden was a member of TheWorshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. He attendedChrist\'s HospitalandSt Paul\'s School, and in 1566 enteredOxford(Magdalen College,Broadgates Hall, and finallyChrist Church). At Christ Church, he became acquainted withPhilip Sidney, who encouraged Camden\'s antiquarian interests. He returned to London in 1571 without a degree. In 1575, he became Usher ofWestminster School, a position that gave him the freedom to travel and pursue his antiquarian researches during school vacations.

Britannia[edit]

In 1577, with the encouragement ofAbraham Ortelius, Camden began his great workBritannia, a topographical and historical survey of all of Great Britain and Ireland. His stated intention was \"to restore antiquity to Britaine, and Britaine to its antiquity\". The first edition, written inLatin, was published in 1586. It proved very popular, and ran through five further editions, of 1587, 1590, 1594, 1600 and 1607, each greatly enlarged from its predecessor in both textual content and illustrations. The 1607 edition included for the first time a full set of English county maps, based on the surveys ofChristopher SaxtonandJohn Norden, and engraved by William Kip andWilliam Hole(who also engraved the fine title page). The firstEnglish languageedition, translated byPhilemon Holland, appeared in 1610, again with some additional content supplied by Camden.[1]

Britanniais a county-by-county description of Great Britain and Ireland. It is a work ofchorography: 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 ofRoman Britain.

Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms in the funeral procession of Elizabeth I, 1603.

He continued to collect materials and to revise and expandBritanniathroughout his life. He drew on the published and unpublished work ofJohn LelandandWilliam Lambarde, among others, and received the assistance of a large network of correspondents with similar interests. He also travelled throughout Great Britain to view documents, sites, and artefacts for himself: he is known to have visited East Anglia in 1578, Yorkshire and Lancashire in 1582, Devon in 1589, Wales in 1590, Salisbury, Wells and Oxford in 1596, and Carlisle and Hadrian\'s Wall in 1599.[2]His fieldwork and firsthand research set new standards for the time. He even learnedWelshandOld Englishfor the task: his tutor in Old English wasLaurence Nowell.

In 1593 Camden became headmaster ofWestminster School. He held the post for four years, but left when he was appointedClarenceux King of Arms. By this time, largely because of theBritannia\'s reputation, he was a well-known and revered figure, and the appointment was meant to free him from the labour of teaching and to facilitate his research. TheCollege of Armsat that time was not only a centre ofgenealogicalandheraldicstudy, but also a centre of antiquarian study. The appointment, however, roused the jealousy ofRalph Brooke,York Herald, who, in retaliation, published an attack onBritannia, charging Camden with inaccuracy and plagiarism. Camden successfully defended himself against the charges in subsequent editions of the work.

Britanniawas recognised as an important work of Renaissance scholarship, not only in England, but across the European \"Republic of Letters\". Camden considered having the 1586Britanniaprinted in theLow Countries, and although that did not happen, the third edition of 1590, in addition to its London printing, was also published the same year inFrankfurt, and reprinted there in 1616. In 1612 parts were condemned by theSpanish Inquisition. An abridgement was published in Amsterdam in 1617 and reprinted in 1639; and versions of the text were also included inJoan Blaeu\'sTheatrum Orbis Terrarum(published in Amsterdam in 1645) and inJan Janssonius\'sNovus Atlas(again published in Amsterdam, in 1646).[3]

Annales[edit]Frontispiece from a 1675 edition of theAnnales

In 1597,Lord Burghleysuggested that Camden write a history of Queen Elizabeth\'s reign. The degree of Burghley\'s subsequent influence on the work is unclear: Camden only specifically mentionsSir John Fortescue, Elizabeth\'s lastChancellor of the Exchequer, andHenry Cuffe, theEarl of Essex\'s secretary, as sources.[4]Camden began his work in 1607. The first part of theAnnales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnate Elizabetha, covering the reign up to 1597, appeared in 1615. The second part was completed in 1617, but was not published until 1625 (Leiden), and 1627 (London), following Camden\'s death. The first translation into English appeared in 1625.[5]

TheAnnaleswere not written in a continuous narrative, but in the style of earlier annals, giving the events of each year in a separate entry. Sometimes criticised as being too favourably disposed towards Elizabeth andJames I, theAnnalesare one of the great works of Englishhistoriographyand had a great impact on the later image of theElizabethan age.Hugh Trevor-Ropersaid about them: \"It is thanks to Camden that we ascribe to Queen Elizabeth a consistent policy ofvia mediarather than an inconsequent series of unresolved conflicts and paralysed indecisions.\"[5]

Remaines Concerning Britain[edit]

Camden\'sRemaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britainewas a collection of themed historical essays, conceived as a more popular companion toBritannia. 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.Remainessubsequently 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).[6]Editions published after 1623 are unreliable and contain unauthentic material, especially the bowdlerized edition of 1636 byJohn Philipot.Thomas Moule\'s edition of 1870, of which many copies survive, is based on Philipot\'s 1674 edition.

Camden\'sRemainesis often the earliest or sole usage cited for a word in theOxford English Dictionary; and further significant early usages (including new words and antedatings) have since been identified.[7]Remainesalso contains the first-ever alphabetical list ofEnglish proverbs, since heavily exploited by the editors of the principal modern dictionaries of proverbs (including those ofBurton Stevenson(1949), M. P. Tilley (1950) and the third edition of theOxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, edited byF. P. Wilson(1970)). Scattered through the book are a number of additional proverbs not recorded elsewhere.[8]

Reges, reginae[edit]

In 1600 Camden published, anonymously,Reges, reginae, nobiles et alii in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti, a guidebook to the manytomb monumentsandepitaphsofWestminster Abbey. Although slight, this was a highly innovative work, predatingJohn Weever\'sAncient Funerall Monumentsby over thirty years. It proved popular with the public, and two expanded editions appeared in 1603 and in 1606.

Other writings[edit]

Among Camden\'s other works were theInstitutio Graecae grammatices compendiaria in usum regiae scholae Westmonasteriensis(1595), a Greek grammar which remained a standard school textbook for over a century;Actio in Henricum Garnetum, Societatis Jesuiticae in Anglia superiorem(1607), a Latin translation of the trial of theGunpowder Plotters, aimed at an international readership; an unpublished essay on printing;[9]and a number of Latin poems.[10]

Final years[edit]Camden (byMarcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1609)

In 1609 Camden moved toChislehurstin Kent, now south-east London. Though often in ill health, he continued to work diligently. In 1622 he founded an endowed lectureship in History at Oxford – the first in the world – which continues to this day as theCamden Chair in Ancient History. That same year he was struck withparalysis. He died in Chislehurst on 9 November 1623, and was buried at Westminster Abbey, where his monument, incorporating a demi-figure of Camden holding a copy of theBritannia, can still be seen in the south transept.

Camden left his books to his former pupil and friend,Sir Robert Cotton, the creator of theCotton library. His circle of friends and acquaintances includedLord Burghley,Fulke Greville,Philip Sidney,Edmund Spenser,John Stow,John Dee,Jacques de ThouandBen Jonson, who was Camden\'s student at Westminster and who dedicated an early edition ofEvery Man in His Humourto him.

Legacy[edit]

The lectureship in History at Oxford endowed by Camden survives as theCamden Chair in Ancient History. Since 1877 it has been attached toBrasenose College, and since 1910 has been limited to Roman history.

TheCamden Society, atext publication societyfounded in 1838 to publish early historical and literary materials, took its name from Camden. In 1897 it was absorbed into theRoyal Historical Society, which continues to publish texts in what are now known as the Camden Series.

TheCambridge Camden Society, which also took its name from Camden, was a learned society founded in 1839 by undergraduates atCambridge Universityto promote the study ofGothic architecture. In 1845 it moved to London, where it became known as the Ecclesiological Society, and was highly influential in the development of the 19th-centuryGothic revival.

After Camden\'s death, his former home at Chislehurst became known as Camden Place. In the 18th century, it was owned by SirCharles Pratt,Chief Justice of the Common Pleasand laterLord Chancellor, who in 1765 was elevated to the peerage as Baron Camden, of Camden Place. In 1786 he was created Earl Camden, and in 1812 his son becameMarquess Camden. The family owned and developed land to the north of London, and so, by this circuitous route, William Camden is commemorated in the names ofCamden Townand theLondon Borough of Camden.

John CaryFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFor other people named John Cary, seeJohn Cary (disambiguation).A New Map of the British Isles, from the Latest Authorities 1807, from John Cary\'sNew Universal AtlasAn 1801 map of the East Indies.

John Cary(c. 1754 – 1835) was anEnglishcartographer.

Cary served his apprenticeship as an engraver in London, before setting up his own business in the Strand in 1783. He soon gained a reputation for his maps and globes, hisatlas,The New and Correct English Atlaspublished in 1787, becoming a standard reference work in England.

In 1794 Cary was commissioned by thePostmaster Generalto survey England\'s roads. This resulted inCary\'s New Itinerary(1798), a map of all the major roads in England andWales. He also producedOrdnance Surveymaps prior to 1805.

In his later life he collaborated on geological maps with the geologistWilliam Smith.[1]His business was eventually taken over by G. F. Cruchley (1822–1875).

Cary\'s major works include:

• Actual Survey of the country fifteen miles around London(1786)
• New and Correct English Atlas(1787)
• Camden\'s Britannia(1789) - maps for 1789 and 1806 editions
• Cary\'s Survey of the High Roads from London(1790)
• Cary\'s Traveller\'s Companion(1790)
• New Maps of England and Wales with part of Scotland(1794)
• Inland Navigation; or Select Plans of the Several Navigable Canals throughout Britain(1795)
• Cary\'s New Itinerary(1798)
• A New Map of Scotland(1801)
• New British Atlas(1805), with John Stockdale
• A New map of chinese & independent Tartary(1806)
• Cary\'s New Universal Atlas(1808)
• Cary\'s English Atlas(1809)
• New Elementary Atlas(1813)
• Cary\'s New Itinerary(1817)