A CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS, RELATING TO BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY, AND SAXON AND NORTHERN LITERATURE, BEQUEATHED TO THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, IN THE YEAR MDCCXCIX. BY RICHARD GOUGH, ESQ. F. S. A. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. MDCCCXIV. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF 66 66 RICHARD GOUGH, ESQ. « ALSO I give and bequeath to the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of "the University of Oxford my printed Books and Manuscripts on Saxon "and Northern Literature mentioned in a Catalogue of the same for the "Use of the Saxon professor in the said University, when he shall have "occasion to consult them with liberty to take them to his Apartments on "condition of faithfully returning them Also I give and bequeath to the "Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford all my Manuscripts printed Books and Pamphlets Prints and Drawings Maps "and Copper Plates relating to British Topography markt in the title page or elsewhere with the Letters B. T. 1. 2. of which I have drawn out a Catalogue printed in one or written in more quarto Volumes together with my topographical drawings Prints and Maps in or more folio Volumes "bound in Russia Leather or with Russia Leather backs or in any other "binding and lettered on the back by the names of the respective Counties "or Districts to which such Drawings Prints or Maps respectively belong "together with other Books Antiquities Copper Plates or other articles re"lative to the subject of Antiquities specified in the Catalogue or Catalogues "aforesaid or in any other that shall or may be written or printed Also my interleaved Copies of the British Topography in two and in four Vo"lumes quarto; my interleaved Copies of Camden's Britannia in five Vo"lumes folio and my interleaved Copies of the Sepulchral Monuments of "Great Britain in two or more Volumes folio with all the Drawings relative "to the latter Work in two or more folio Volumes bound in Russia Leather " or other bindings together with such impressions of the Plates as may be 66 4 "in the said Volumes and all the Copper Plates of the said Work which 66 may be in the hands of Mr. James Basire Engraver who engraved them or deposited elsewhere at the time of my decease and also all the Copper "Plates belonging to the British Topography And likewise fourteen Vo"lumes handsomely bound in folio and two others in folio in yellowish "boards of Drawings of Sepulchral and other Monuments in France. And "it is my will and desire that the whole of the said Articles matters and "things shall be placed in the Bodleian Library in a building adjoining to "the Picture Gallery called or known by the name of the Antiquaries Closet " erected for keeping Manuscripts printed Books and other Articles relating "to British Topography and of such Articles and Collections of this kind as "have been removed from the said Gallery or other parts of the said Library "so that all together they may form one uniform body of British Antiqui"ties. And it is my particular desire that Mr. John Nichols of Red Lion Passage Fleet Street Printer or in case of his death his Son John-Bowyer "Nichols do assist my Executors hereinafter named in selecting the said "Articles so given to the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the said Uni"versity of Oxford and in transmitting them to the said University.” It only remains to be stated, that the present Catalogue has been formed as nearly as possible on the plan adopted by Mr. Gough himself in his BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY. The Books are arranged according to Counties, and, where it was practicable, chronologically. A very full and perfect Index of Names will be found at the end so that it is hoped the present attempt will possess the advantages both of an alphabetical and a classed Catalogue. ; Bodleian Library, B. BANDINEL. MAPS, PLANS, VIEWS, DRAWINGS, CHARTS, AND ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES. 88 ORBIS Antiqui Tabulæ Geographicæ secundum Cl. Ptolemæum. 95 Ejusdem operis, ed. alt. Trajecti ad Rhenum. 1698. 96 Chartæ Geographicæ omnium Comitatuum Angliæ et Walliæ coloribus distinctæ per Chr. Saxton. 1579. 90 The Shires of England and Wales, described by Chr. Saxton, with additions by P. Lea. 92 The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain, with Maps, by John Speed. London. 1611. 147 England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, described and abridged by John Speed. 12mo. London. 1627. 89 Adair's Maps and Charts of Scotland. 1688. See No. 1. 84 Hiberniæ Delineatio, quoad hactenus licuit, perfectissima, studio Gul. 98 Morden's Maps of the Counties of England (drawn originally for the English "Britannia"). 91 1 The same, small 4to. Theatrum Scotiæ et Hiberniæ (57 maps: from "Blaeu's Atlas"). i. Of Ancient Britain, by Sturt, Ryther, Speed, Hole, &c. (including B |