HOLINSHED RAPHAEL 1587 The First and Second Volumes [Third

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HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL. The First and Second Volumes [Third Volume] of Chronicles. Now newlie augmented and continued . . . to the Yeare 1586. General and divisional titles within woodcut architectural borders. Apart from preliminaries, printed in black letter. 3 volumes in 2. Folio, Volume 1/2 340x227 mm, Volume 3 332x218 mm, modern uniform 1/4 calf with morocco lettering pieces; occasional marginal soiling and dampstaining, scattered marginal repairs generally not affecting text (with exception of repair to 4I5 in Volume 3), some contemporary inscriptions and marginalia, lacks 4 (of 5) blank leaves, Volume 1/2 general title heavily soiled, torn in blank outer margin and mounted, Volume 3 with sidenotes and some headlines cropped, title and next leaf supplied in facsimile, minor worming through genuine preliminary leaves generally not impairing legibility, corner off 6I2 with text loss. (London: John Harrison et al., 1587)

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Second edition, revised and enlarged, the principal source for Shakespeare's plays on English history. Portions mainly concerning Anglo-Scottish relations were replaced with expurgated text by order of the Privy Council. In Volume 3 of the present set pages 1503-06, 1515-16, and the last 6 leaves of the index are supplied from the 1728 reprint of the original uncensored sheets. This set is accompanied by a copy of the 1728 volume of reprinted cancellanda (lacking title, pages 1-6, and 1563-74), loose in imperfect original boards. STC 13569; Lowndes, page 1087; Maslen, "Three Eighteenth-Century Reprints of the Castrated Sheets in Holinshed's Chronicles," The Library (Fifth Series) XIII (1958), pages 120-124.