GRAFTON, RICHARD. A Chronicle at large and meere History of the affayres of Englande and Kings of the same, deduced from the Creation of the worlde. General title within engraved historiated border depicting Queen Elizabeth, Moses, and various sovereign; Volume 2 title dated 1568 within woodcut historiated architectural border; 7 woodcut illustrations, all but 2 after Virgil Solis. [12], 192, [8]; [2], 1369, [43] pages, with the general title and last 5 leaves (Volume 2 index) supplied in facsimile on laid paper. Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 274x187 mm, early 19th-century russia, rebacked, spine and cover edges worn, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; marginal soiling, scattered mostly minor stains, scrawls or doodles on a few leaves, 4 preliminaries remargined, blank lower outer corner of O3 restored, 5T6 probably supplied from another copy, last 5 leaves heavily browned. Armorial bookplate of Northage John de Ville Mather. (London: Henry Denham for Richard Tottle and Humphrey Toye), 1569