Added to your basket:
Richard Hakluyt. A guide to his books and to those associated with him, 1580–1625.

Checkout now

In this guide various approaches to Hakluyt’s books are suggested under a number of interrelated headings – his patronage and connections; Italian and French influences; his use of illustration and his presentation of texts; his intentions; and his impact and readership. It is hoped that it will aid a broad appreciation of Hakluyt’s work and the nature of his achievement, notably that his part in the publication of over twenty-five travel books marks a contribution to travel literature far beyond the Principal navigations . . . and discoveries of the English nation for which he is chiefly famous. Extensive notes are provided to indicate further primary and secondary references and, finally, there is a bibliography of the books by or otherwise associated with Hakluyt published between 1580 and 1625.

ISBN: 978-0-9550852-7-7.

You may also be interested in...

FROM BRIGHT TO STIRLING MAXWELL [BURNS, Robert.] BRIGHT, Henry A[rthur].

Some Account of the Glenriddell MSS. of Burns’s Poems: with several Poems never before published … [Printed for private Distribution.]

First edition, scarce, a presentation copy: a privately-printed catalogue of the famous Glenriddell manuscripts; Burns’s preface and several poems are printed here for the first time.

Read more

DELUXE COPY – WITH FOUR ORIGINAL LEAVES ANDREWS, Mark E.

The Science and Engineering of Materials: Theatre of Machine Books, 1472–1800.

One of twenty-five finely bound numbered deluxe copies, with four original leaves bound in, of this extraordinary survey of four centuries of machine books, tracing the evolution of printing techniques and draughtsmanship alongside the development of the machines themselves.

Read more