ABSTRACT
This chapter suggest that the framework of the Britannia, persisting through every edition, is that of the Celtic tribal areas of Britain as recorded in the classical geographers, with the English shires grouped within their accommodatingly vague boundaries. William Camden’s work on British coins, contained in the Remaines and in the Britannia, is of pioneer importance. Camden’s newly translated text was followed by the additions, placed at the end of each country. The new translation has precision, and a comfortable dignity, though one regrets at times the enthusiastic, if wayward, style of Holland. The new edition continued to preserve the general form of the Britannia as contained in Gibson’s recension, with the addition of a great deal of miscellaneous topographical information in the text, and the provision of a considerably enlarged number of illustrations.
