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Camden (William)

  • d. 1623
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English antiquarian and author, known best for his Britannia.
Camden, William, Camden’s Britannia: newly translated into English, with large additions and improvements, tr. Edmund Gibson, 1st ed., London: F. Collins, 1695.
Early English Books Onine – Transcription: <link>
Camden, William, Remains concerning Britain: their languages, names, surnames, &c. ... [The seventh impression, much amended, with many rare antiquities never before imprinted. By the industry and care of John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and W. D. Gent], ed. John Philipot, and W. D. Gent, London, 1674.
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Camden, William, Remains concerning Britain: their languages, names, surnames, &c. ... [The sixth impression, with many rare antiquities never before imprinted. By the Industry and the care of John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and W. D. Gent], ed. John Philipot, and W. D. Gent, London, 1657.
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Camden, William, Britain: or a chrorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiquitie: beautified with mappes of the severall shires of England, tr. Philemon Holland, London: F. Kingston, R. Young and I. Legatt for George Latham, 1637.  
A revised and expanded edition of the 1610 translation of Camden’s Britannia (revised, amended, and enlarged with sundry additions by the said author.).
Early English Books Online: <link>
Camden, William, Remaines concerning Britaine: their languages, surnames, anagrammes, proverbs ... fift impression, with many rare antiquities never before imprinted, ed. John Philipot, 5th ed., London: Thomas Harper for John Waterson, 1636.
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Camden, William, Remaines, concerning Brittaine: but especially England, and the inhabitants thereof: their languages, names, surnames, allusions [etc., fourth impression, reuiewed, corrected, and increased], 4th ed., London: A. I. for Symon Waterson, 1629.
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Camden, William, Remaines, concerning Britaine, but especially England, and the inhabitants thereof: their languages, surnames, anagrammes, proverbs, &c, 3rd ed., London: Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, 1623.  

The “third impression reviewed, corrected, and encreased”.

Internet Archive: <link>
Camden, William, Britannia: sive florentissimorum regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, ed. Reinier Telle, pocket ed., Amsterdam: Willem Janszoon Blaeu, 1617.  
Pocket edition abridged by Reinier Telle of Zierikzee (In epitomen contracta a Regnero Vitellio Zirizæo) and published by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, with maps produced by Flemish engraver Pieter van den Keere.
Internet Archive: <link>
Camden, William, Britannia: sive florentissimorum regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, new ed., Frankfurt am Main: Johann Bringer, 1616.
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Camden, William, Remaines, concerning Britaine: but especially England, and the inhabitants thereof: their languages, names, surnames, allusions, anagrammes, armories, monies, empresses, apparell, artillarie, wise speeches, prouerbs, poesies, epitaphes, 2nd ed., London: John Legatt for Simon Waterson, 1614.
Internet Archive: <link>
Camden, William, Britain: or a chrorographicall description of the most flourishing kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the ilands adioyning, out of the depth of antiquitie: beautified with mappes of the severall shires of England, tr. Philemon Holland, London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610.  
An English translation of the 1607 edition of W. Camden’s Britannia, with additional material supplied by Camden.
Stanford Libraries: <link> Stanford Libraries: View in Mirador
Camden, William, Britannia: sive florentissimorum regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, 6th, augmented ed., London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1607.
Internet Archive: <link>
Camden, William, Remaines of a greater worke, concerning Britaine: the inhabitants thereof, their languages, names, surnames, empreses, wise speeches, poësies, and epitaphs, 1st ed., London: George Eld for Simon Waterson, 1605.
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Camden, William, Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, Cambrica: a veteribus scripta: ex quibus Asser Meneuensis, anonymus De vita Gulielmi Conquestoris, Thomas Walsingham, Thomas de la More, Gulielmus Gemiticensis, Giraldus Cambrensis, 2nd ed., Frankfurt: Claude de Marne & Jean Aubry, 1603.
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Camden, William, Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, Cambrica: a veteribus scripta: ex quibus Asser Meneuensis, anonymus De vita Gulielmi Conquestoris, Thomas Walsingham, Thomas de la More, Gulielmus Gemiticensis, Giraldus Cambrensis, Frankfurt: Claude de Marne & Jean Aubry, 1602.
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Camden, William, Britannia: sive florentissimorum regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, 5th ed., London: George Bishop, 1600.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Camden, William, Britannia: sive florentissimorum regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, 4th ed., London: George Bishop, 1594.
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Camden, William, Britannia: sive florentissimorum regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, 3rd ed., London: George Bishop, 1590.
Camden, William, Britannia: sive florentissimorum regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, 2nd ed., London: Ralph Newbery, 1587.
Camden, William, Britannia: sive florentissimorum regnorum, Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniæ, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, 1st ed., London: Ralph Newbery, 1586.


See also: Cotton (Robert)
Cotton (Robert)
(1570/71–1631)
Sir Robert Bruce, 1st baronet, of Connington Hall, was an English politician, antiquary and collector of manuscripts, who established the Cotton library.
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Lennard (Samson) ... d. 1633
(d. 1633)
English officer of arms, antiquarian and genealogist. In 1620, he and Sir Henry St George served as William Camden’s deputies in Cornwall and Devon, and visits to three further English counties were made in 1623.
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St George (Henry)
(1581–1644)
English officer of arms.
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Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Walters, Gwyn, and Frank Emery, “Edward Lhuyd, Edmund Gibson, and the printing of Camden's Britannia, 1695”, The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 32:2 (June, 1977): 109–137.
Bromwich, Rachel, “William Camden and Trioedd Ynys Prydain”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 23:1 (1968, 1968–1970): 14–17.

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