[Saxton, Christopher.

folio (450 x 310mm.), [2 (letterpress index)] pp., illustration: double-page engraved plate showing coats of arms and a table of counties, 39 double-page engraved maps (Yorkshire folding), after Saxton by Hogenberg, Lenaert Terwoot, Cornelis de Hooghe, Augustine Ryther, Francis Scatter, and Nicholas Reynolds, maps of Cornwall and Yorkshire replaced with maps from the Lea edition, 4 additional maps tipped in (see footnote), all but 3 maps in fine contemporary hand colour (Cornwall and additional map of Buckingham plain, Yorkshire in contemporary outline colour), binding: contemporary vellum, lacking engraved frontispiece showing Queen Elizabeth and 2 maps (Cornwall and Yorkshire), some soiling (mainly marginal), many maps split at fold, binding stained

Chubb I; Evans and Lawrence, pp. 9–43; Skelton 1

Nine maps bear Seckford’s pre-1576 motto (Pestis patriae pigricies), and twenty-four his later motto (Industria naturam ornat), the index is in the fourth setting (with a four-line heading and three columns), there are eighty-three coats of arms and one blank, and the general map, Northamptonshire and Norfolk are all in the second state. The paper bears the crossed-sword watermark.

The additional maps are:
Seller, J. Buckinamiae comitatus vulgo Buckingham Shire. London printed and sold by Thomas and John Bowles;
Boazio, B. [Irlandiae accurata descriptio.[London, 1599], left-hand sheet only;
Ortelius, A. Eryn. Hiberniae Britannicae insulae. [Antwerp, 1584];
Ortelius, A. Scotiae tabula. [Antwerp, c. 1582].