A PERAMBULATION OF KENT: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customs…

A PERAMBULATION OF KENT: Conteining the description, Hystorie, and Customs of that Shyre. Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare. 1570. By William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne Gent. And nowe increase by the addition of some things which the Authour him self hath observed since that time….

London: Imprinted at London for Ralph Newberie, dwelling in Fleetstreet a little above the Conduit, 1576. [15], [1 blank], 435 pages. Bound in 19th century half calf over marbled boards. 160 x 136 mm. Lacks the original map, but a map from the section edition of 1596 (which is all but identical) had been stuck to the blank verso of the leaf preceding page 1; occasional contemporary annotation; the odd mark; boards rubbed; else a very good copy of the first edition of the first County History published in England.

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