The pastyme of people
Subtitle: the cronycles of dyuers realmys and most specyally of the realme of Englond breuely cōpylyd & empryntyd in Chepsyde at the sygne of the mearemayd next to pollys gate ...
Contributors: Rastell, John, d. 1536, printer.; Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1720-1790, former owner.; Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Johannes Rastell ...
Published: 1529
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- To 1485.; Great Britain -- Kings and rulers.
Notes: T.p. is a woodcut.  There is a letterpress t.p. which reads, The cronycles of Englande and of dyuers other realmes, breuely complyed with the pyctures and armes of all the kynges ..., which may have been a trial t.p. before the woodcut was ready. Cf. STC.  [Both title pages are present in LC copy].

Signatures: A-E⁶ [chi] ²A-F⁶ G².

Includes 18 full page woodcuts of the English kings, said to be by Rastell himself.

"The Library's copy originally was in a different binding and carried the bookplate of Philip Lord Hardwicke.  At the time the Library acquired it in 1910, it lacked the second title-page and leaves E1 and E6 were present in facsimile.  These three leaves have been added from the Earl of Kinnoull-Levis copy presented by L.J. Rosenwald, who also permitted the Library to substitute the following superior leaves: ²A 1-6, ²B 1,2,5,6, ²C 1-6, ²D 1-6, ²E 1-6, and the binding"--Card laid in, signed Frederich R. Goff, August 6, 1853. [Added leaves are 1 cm. larger than original leaves].

STC (2nd ed.) 20724

LC copy has bookplate of Howard C. Levis.