The castrations of the last edition of Holinshed's Chronicle, both in the Scotch and English parts, containing forty four sheets; printed with the old types and ligatures, and compared literatim by the original.
Holinshed, Raphael,-1580?.
London : printed for William Mears, Fletcher Gyles, and James Woodman,
1723.
The ornament on the cancel titlepage is that used by William Bowyer.
Edited by John Blackburn.
A reissue of the 1722 edition, with a cancel titlepage.
"Immediately after the publication of the [second edition, 1586-87] of Holinshed's Chronicles the Privy Council ordered extensive expurgations" (NUC).
These sheets were meant to be added to the surviving copies of the second edition of Raphael Holinshed's 'Chronicles'.
ESTC