Authority Cited: Gibson
Author name and dates: Edmund Gibson (1669-1748)
BKG Bio-tweet: Prominent cleric; church legal scholar; founding governor of the Foundling Hospital; trans. Camden’s Brittania from Latin
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 44 total cites in vol. 1 of the 1755 Dict., and about 30 total cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two Gibson cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below. These were definitions in the 1755 Dict. without attribution. The edition of the Gibson Brittania translation that SJ used is unknown. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 605 3. Camden's Britannia, &c. The Gibson translation may also be in this sale lot.]
Author name and dates: Edmund Gibson (1669-1748)
BKG Bio-tweet: Prominent cleric; church legal scholar; founding governor of the Foundling Hospital; trans. Camden’s Brittania from Latin
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 44 total cites in vol. 1 of the 1755 Dict., and about 30 total cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two Gibson cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below. These were definitions in the 1755 Dict. without attribution. The edition of the Gibson Brittania translation that SJ used is unknown. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 605 3. Camden's Britannia, &c. The Gibson translation may also be in this sale lot.]
- BRITTANIA: Or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland Together with the Adjacent Lands. Written in Latin & Translated Into English with Additions and Improvements, Published by Edmund Gibson of Queen's College in Oxford. 1695 London : Printed by F. Collins, for A. Swalle at the Unicorn as the West End of St. Paul's Churchyard and A. & J. Churchil at the Black Swan in Pater-noster Row OR The Second Edition, 1722, OR Britannia: or, a chorographical description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands. Written in Latin by William Camden, Clarenceux, King at Arms: and translated into English, with Additions and Improvements. Revised, digested, and published, with large additions, by Edmund Gibson, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of London, The Third Edition. in two volumes, 1753, London: printed for R. Ware, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, C. Hitch, D. Browne, H. Lintot, C. Davis, J. Hodges, A. Millar, W. Bowyer, J. Whiston, J. and J. Rivington, and J. Ward; ab; ac; ael; aelf; al; ard; ask/ash/as; athel; bald; bam/beam; barrow; bert; brad; brig/brix; brun; bur; burh; burrow; car; castor; cen; ceol; chip; comb; cot; crag; den; der; er; erne; ey; fleet; fred; gar; gisle; grave; hal; ham; hare; heard; helm; hold; holme; inge; lade; leod; leof; ley; lowe; ly; maere; marsh; mere; mund; over; pres; ric; rig; stan; stead; stoke; stowe; thorp; ton; werth; wi; wic; wig; wiht; wold (2); [BKG Note: all citations of Gibson's Camden appear on pp. clxix/clxx , clxxi/clxxii, and clxxiii/clxxiv of Vol. 1 of the 1753 edition of this title (the text is in two columns, with two page numbers on each of the three pages). The pages are numbered in the same way in the 1722 2nd edition, perhaps from the same plates (see image below). The citations are quotations related to the etymology of English words and place names and are contained in the section titled The Names of the English Saxons, which includes the subsection General Rules Whereby to Know the Original of the Names of Places in England. In the first edition, the relevant pages are cxxxiii/cxxxiv, and cxxxv/cxxxvi for The Names of the English Saxons. However, I did not locate in the 1st edition the section entitled General Rules Whereby to Know the Original of the Names of Places in England. It therefore appears that SJ used the 2nd (1722) or 3rd (1753) edition. ]
- Gibson (no work cited); holt; rad; sig; weald; worth; [BKG Note: in the 1755 Dict. these five headwords are cited only by "Gibson," but are also from the pages noted above. In the 1773 Dict. edition, several "Gibson's Camden" citations are shortened to "Gibson."]
The image of the page below is from the 1722 edition of Gibson's Camden (from HathiTrust)
