The vnion of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this noble realme, with all the actes done in bothe the tymes of the princes, bothe of the one linage and of the other, beginnyng at the tyme of kyng Henry the fowerth, the first aucthor of this deuision, and so successiuely proceadyng to the reigne of the high and prudent prince kyng Henry the eight, the vndubitate flower and very heire of both the sayd linages.
Contributors: Grafton, Richard, d. 1572?, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: in officina Richardi Grafton...]
Published: 1548
Place of publication: [Londini
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603; Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485
Other titles: Union of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre and Yorke
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 12722
Colophon: Londini in officina Richardi Graftoni typis impress. Cvm privilegio ad imprimendvm solvm. Anno. M.D.XLVIII.
Title within ornamental border (McK.& F.67); printer's mark (McK.104a) above colophon on recto of last leaf.
Numerous errors in foliation, including clxxix-lxxx and cxciv omitted in the numbering.
Hall's work ends with 1532. The continuation to the death of Henry VIII was written by Richard Grafton from Hall's notes.
The large cut of Henry VIII and his court on verso of leaf cclxiij at end is attributed by Hind to Jacob Faber after Holbein.
For details on the printing of this title see STC (2nd ed.)
Another state of the title page (STC 12722) has "illustre ... Yorke," (with comma) in line 3.
LC copy imperfect: t.p. and all before signature C1, Nn3-Nn4, DD6-EE5, FF6-II1, ccc2, ccc5, and AAA-XXX wanting; S4-S5 bound after Nn2.