A volume containing five pamphlets the most significant of which is William Stukeley’s which contains a folding map of ancient Britain. This work is the result of a literary forgery which Stukeley fell for. A Charles Bertram had written to him from Copenhagen claiming to have found a new map of Roman Britain made by a fourteenth-century monk in Westminster. Stukelely tried to buy the map for the British Museum. The correspondence which ensued forms the content of this work. The map was finally discredited in 1869. The contents are as follows:

1 – Sir John Clerk (1676-1755). Dissertatio de Monumentis quibusdam Romanis. 1750. Edinburgh. T. & W. Ruddimannos. pp. 19 and 1 folding plate. ESTC N6853

2 – John Kennedy (d.1760). A Dissertation upon Oriuna. 1751. London. Printed for John Whiston and Benj. White, at Boyle’s Head in Fleet-Street; and W. Owen. pp. 27, (1), with 2 plates. ESTC T160582.

3 – Philip Carteret Webb ((1700?-70). A Short Account of Some Particulars concerning Domes-Day Book. London. Printed by William Bowyer; the records show 500 copies printed. pp. (2), 21. ESTC T4738.

4 – William Stukeley (1687-1765). An Account of Richard of Cirencester, monk of Westminster, and of his works: with his antient map of Roman Brittain … 1757. London. Printed by Richard Hett: and sold by Charles Corbet, Bookseller, over-against St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet Street. pp. 94, (1), with 1 large folding map (minor tear repaired) and 1 plate. ESTC T68353. The folding map is entitled ‘Mappa Britanniae faciei Romanae secundum fidem Monumentorum perveterum depicta’ 440 x 365 mm.

5 – John Pettingal (1708-81). A Dissertation on the Original of the Equestrian Figure of the George and of the Garter. [1753]. London. Printed for Samuel Paterson, at Shakespeare’s Head, in the Strand. ESTC T93759. pp. 57 with illustrations in the text.

Provenance: bookplate of John Broadley pasted inside front cover; R. H. Hooker, Oxford Book Fair 1993; private English collection. Sotheby’s Library of the Earl of Macclesfield 13 March 2008 lot 4245.