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HOLINSHED (RAPHAEL) The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The Description and Historie of England, 2 The Description and Historie of Ireland, 3 The Description and Historie of Scotland...now newlie augmented and continued... to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent. and others...; The Third Volume of Chronicles, beginning at Duke William the Norman, Commonlie Called the Conqueror; and Descending by Degrees of Yeares to all the Kings and Queenes of England in their Orderlie Successions, 3 vol. in 2, [colophon: at the expenses of John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke. At London printed [by Henry Denham] in Aldersgate street at the signe of the Starre], 1587
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HOLINSHED (RAPHAEL)
The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The Description and Historie of England, 2 The Description and Historie of Ireland, 3 The Description and Historie of Scotland...now newlie augmented and continued... to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent. and others...; The Third Volume of Chronicles, beginning at Duke William the Norman, Commonlie Called the Conqueror; and Descending by Degrees of Yeares to all the Kings and Queenes of England in their Orderlie Successions, 3 vol. in 2, second edition, black letter, double column, 7 general or part titles within engraved woodcut borders (McKerrow and Ferguson 147a,148, 122, and 138), numerous ornamental initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut device on colophon leaves, with cancels as listed on ESTC and 2 blank leaves of 5 (lacking initial blank in volume 1 and final blanks in volumes 2 & 3), occasional tears and stains, 2R2 in volume 1 with large piece torn from lower corner, final leaf of volume 3 repaired affecting text, volume 3 with extensive early annotations on verso of title and in margins throughout, eighteenth century catspaw calf, rebacked preserving earlier morocco labels, extremities worn, some tears [STC 13569], folio (368 x 230mm.), [colophon: at the expenses of John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke. At London printed [by Henry Denham] in Aldersgate street at the signe of the Starre], 1587
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A very good copy of the second edition, with extensive early annotations in the third volume. Well-known as a key source for Shakespeare's Richard II and III, Henry IV-VI, Macbeth and Cymbeline, this was the edition brought to the attention of Elizabeth I because of certain passages concerning Anglo-Scottish affairs, the Babington conspiracy, and Leicester's campaign in the Low Countries. Elizabeth ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to recall the work, resulting in the cancels to be found here in volumes 2 and 3, and the subsequent reprinting of some leaves in the eighteenth century.
Provenance: Robert ?Frewin, contemporary inscription on title-page of volume 1 and occasional marginalia; early seventeenth century ownership inscription ("Caelum patria, mundus exilium(?). H.H.") at head of title-page of volume 3, and extensive annotations filling verso of title-page and in margins throughout the volume.