Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL. The Historie of Scotland. Title within woodcut ornamental border; profusion of text illustrations. [8], 22, [2], 518, [23] pages. Apart from preliminaries, printed in black letter. Folio, 280x199 mm, 17th-century calf, rebacked with morocco; margins trimmed entering some sidenotes, occasional soiling, stains, and ink blots and smudges, some leaves probably supplied from another copy. [London], 1577

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Second part only of the first edition of Holinshed's Chronicles, "the first continuous and authoritative narrative account of British history written in the vernacular" (DLB).