Angliae Notitia: or the Present State of England, With divers Remarks upon The Ancient State thereof. And continued by his Son, John Chamberlayne, Fellow of the Royal Society. The One and Twentieth Edition, with large Additions and Improvements. In Three Parts

CHAMBERLAYNE, Edw

Published by London. Printed by T.H. for S. Smith and B. Walford. 1704

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8vo, (in8's), 17cm, [xviii],647,[iv]p., (index; called a table), rebound in contemporary style full dark brown calf, raised bands, original spine panels with gilt center panel device decorations replaced, blind stamped panel borders on the boards, 3 leaves have expert repairs along the top edge, a very good to fine sound copy, (ds1). ~ His best-known work is a handbook to the social and political condition of England, with lists of public officers and statistics, entitled Anglia Notitia, or The Present State of England; the publication was an adaptation of L'Estat Nouveau de la France (Paris, 1661). Chamberlayne issued the twentieth edition in 1702, and after his death his son John continued to edit the publication. John Chamberlayne died after the issue of the twenty-second edition in 1723, but fourteen editions were subsequently issued by the booksellers, the last being the thirty-sixth and bearing the date 1755. Charles Henry Hull in 1900 complained that Present State of England "seldom receives nowadays the attention that it deserves". Hull explains that Chamberlayne s book was the direct impulse to the writing of The Political Anatomy of Ireland and Political Arithmetick by William Petty.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Angliae Notitia: or the Present State of England, With divers Remarks upon The Ancient State thereof. And continued by his Son, John Chamberlayne, Fellow of the Royal Society. The One and Twentieth Edition, with large Additions and Improvements. In Three Parts
• Publisher: London. Printed by T.H. for S. Smith and B. Walford. 1704