HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL. The Firste [Laste] Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. General and divisional titles within woodcut border; profusion of woodcut text illustrations, including double-page plan of the siege of Edinburgh. [9], 124 [i. e., 126] leaves, 289, [1] pages; [8], 22, 518, [26] pages; [2], 28 leaves, 115, [9] pages; [4], 291-1876, [104] pages (with numbering irregularities), with Volume 1 preliminaries partly bound out of order together with errata leaf; lacks blank *b*6 in Volume 1 and title in Volume 2 (supplied in facsimile on laid paper). Mostly printed in black letter. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Folio, 276x196 mm, 18th-century 1/4 sheep, rebacked with tan leather; margins trimmed entering some sidenotes and headlines, contents toned with occasional marginal soiling and dampstaining, Volume 1 preliminaries rehinged, hole through ¶2-3 affecting a few words, worming in blank upper inner corner of gatherings f through h, last 3 index leaves torn in outer margin affecting text with last leaf mounted, first several leaves after title in Volume 2 torn at top and restored with text loss, lower outer corner off ²2K5, ²2M2, ²2O3, 3A4, 3I1, and 3Z6 and lower margin off 4H5 affecting text, double-page plan torn along fore edges and restored with slight image loss, hole through N² in index causing text loss. Bookplates of the antiquary John Brand (1744-1806) and the Bibliotheca Lindesiana. London: George Bishop, 1577