Fabyans cronycle
Subtitle: newly prynted : wyth the cronycle, actes, and dedes done in the tyme of the reygne of the moste excellent prynce Kynge Henry the vii, father vnto our most drad souerayne lord Kynge Henry the viii
Contributors: Rastell, William, 1508?-1565, printer; Broxbourne Library
Publisher: By Wyllyam Rastell
Published: 1533
Place of publication: Prentyd at London
Language: eng
Subjects: Early works to 1800; History
Other titles: Fabian's chronicle
Notes: Title within woodcut border with printer's initials. Cf. McKerrow & Ferguson, no. 20.

Special title page for v. 2: The seconde volume of Fabyans cronycle conteynyng the cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, from the begynnyng of the reygne of king Rycharch the fyrste, untyll the begynnyng of the reyne of our moste redoubted souerayne lord kynge Henry the. viii.

Colophon (v. 2): Thus endeth Fabyans cronycle. Printed by. w. Rastell [and] fynyshed the laste daye of December, in the yere ... M.v.C. and XXXiii.

Woodcut on verso of title page: Fabyan's arms. Cf. A.W. Reed. The editor of Sir Thomas More's English works: William Rastell (in The Library, 4th ser., v. 4, no. 1)--p. 33.

Signatures: (vol. 1) Áœ B́þ a-źœ [et]́œ A-Éœ; (vol. 2) *́ı aa-zźœ 2[et]́œ Aa-Pṕœ.

In double columns; foliated.

Title within woodcut border; initials; printed marginal notes.

This second edition includes a continuation from the Battle of Bosworth to the death of Henry VII.

English short title catalogue S121369

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), no. 10660

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early sprinkled calf panelled in blind. The spine is panelled and tooled in gilt with the title likewise stamped. An unidentified armorial bookplate with the motto "Pro viribus summis contendo" is present on the front pastedown and a dealer's description is tipped-on to the recto of the front free endpaper. The calligraphic initials "B.D.[?]" are present on the same leaf. Early marginalia, in various contemporary hands, is present throughout. The bookplates of the Broxbourne Library and of the BPL are present on the rear pastedown, as is the inscription "R.222" in an early hand.