Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 359
Holinshed (Raphael). The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles [and Third volume of Chronicles], comprising the description and historie of England... Ireland... Scotland, first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: Now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586, by John Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others, 3 vols. bound in 2, at the expenses of John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, 1586-7, main volume titles within woodcut borders, separate titles with woodcut borders to ÔThe Irish Historie`, ÔThe Description of Scotland`, and ÔThe Historie of Scotland`, England, Ireland and Scotland with separate paginations, black letter double column text with some woodcut initials, lacks ÔThe Historie of England` title, blank leaf A1 to vol. 1 not present, vol. 2 2Q3-4 are cancelled by a leaf paginated 421/424, 2R3 are cancelled by a leaf paginated 438/431 and 2S2-5 are cancelled by two leaves 443/444 and 445/450, vol. 3 6M3 are cancelled by a leaf paginated 1328/1330, 6V1-6V4 are cancelled by leaves paginated 1419/1420, 1421/1490, 1491/1536 & 1537/1538, 7L1-7M1 are cancelled by three leaves paginated 1551/1552, 1553/1554, 1554/1574, some browning & spotting (mostly light), a.e.g., contemp. calf, gilt arabesque to centre of each board and with initials W.P. applied in gilt, rebacked and corners repaired, lacks ties, folio (leaf size 390 x 260mm). STC 13569. With bookplates of the architect James Gibbs dated 1736, the Radcliffe Library with faint ink stamp Òsold by order of Radcliffe Trustees...Ó, and W. Rolleston Saunders. James Gibbs (1682-1754) was born in Scotland and trained as an architect in Rome. He practised mainly in England and his most important works include St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford. This second edition is most famously the one used as a key source for the plays of William Shakespeare. Due to the politically sensitive nature of a number of passages in this present edition Elizabeth I ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to recall work and cancelled pages to be found in volumes 2 and 3. These cancelled leaves were reprinted three times in the 18th century. (2)
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