HOLINSHED RAPHAEL The First and Second Volumes [Third Volume

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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 or historiated borders. Mostly printed in black letter. 3 volumes in 4. Folio, 352x228 mm, early 19th-century gilt-panelled russia, few joints starting, few others expertly reinforced, Volume 3/1 and 3/2 spines slightly chipped at top; contents washed with some residual toning, soiling, and marginal stains, integral blanks in all 3 volumes lacking. handsome set. (London: John Harrison et al., 1587)

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Second edition, revised and enlarged, following the first of 1577. "The first continuous and authoritative narrative account of British history written in the vernacular" (DLB), Holinshed's work was also the principal source for Shakespeare's plays on English history. Portions dealing with Anglo-Scottish relations were replaced with expurgated text by order of the Privy Council. In this set pages 421-424 and 443-450 in The description of Scotland and pages 1328-31 and 1419-1574 in Volume 3 are supplied from an 18th-century reprint (the third of 3 identified by Maslen) of the original uncensored sheets. 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.

The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles. [10], 250; [4], 202, [28] pages. Few cropped marginalia, dampstaining in upper inner corner of index leaves.

The Second Volume of Chronicles: Conteining the description . . . of Ireland . . . Whereunto is annexed the description of Scotland. 61, [1]; [12], 183, [11]; 464 (with errors), [16] pages. Blank outer margin of title to The Irish Historie . . . by Giraldus Cambrensis soiled and dampstained with small piece torn out, occasional marginal dampstaining, 2R1-2S1 possibly supplied from another copy of this edition, colophon page soiled.

The Third Volume of Chronicles, beginning at duke William . . . the Conqueror . . . and continued . . . to the year 1586. [8], 1592 (with errors), [58] pages. First 3 gatherings possibly supplied from another copy of this edition, title trimmed to border and mounted, last leaf of index mounted on leaf with portion excised to show the colophon on verso.