The abridgement of the English Chronicle
By: first collected by M. Iohn Stow, and after him augmented with very many memorable antiquities, and continued with matters forreine and domesticall, vnto the beginning of the yeare, 1618. by E.H. Gentleman. There is a briefe table at the end of the booke
Contributors: Howes, Edmund, active 1607-1631
Publisher: By Edward Allde and Nicholas Okes] for the Company of Stationers
Published: 1618
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 568
Subjects: Universities and colleges; History
Other titles: Of the Universities in England, and Colledges of the same, with the founders and principal benefactors.; How a man may iourney from any notable towne in England to the city of London, or from London to any notable towne in the realme.; Principall fayres of England and Wales, orderly set foorth; with the moneth, day, and place, where they bee kept.
Work titles: Summarie of Englyshe chronicles
Notes: An abridgment of John Stow's "A summarie of Englyshe chronicles", which were printed in full in London in 1565 and then in abridgments from 1566-1579 (STC (2nd ed.) 23319-23325.2)

Reprinted from the 1611 edition: Imprinted at London [By N. Okes, W. Hall, and T. Haveland] for the Company of Stationers; first printed under title: The abridgement or summarie of the English chronicle first collected by master Iohn Stow, and after him augmented with sundry memorable antiquities, and continued with maters forrein and domesticall, vnto this present yeare 1607. By E.H. Gentleman. London : Printed [by John Windet] for the companie of Stacioners, [1607] (STC (2nd ed.), 23330)

"E.H." on title page can be identified as Edmund Howes, whose name appears on p. [15], 1st count.

Attributed to the press of Edward Allde and Nicholas Oakes by STC, which says that Allde printed through quire U and Okes the rest.

"Of the Vniversities in England, and Colledges of the same, with the founders and principal benefactors", p. [1-14], 5th count, has separate caption title.

"How a man may iourney from any notable towne in England to the city of London, or from London to any notable towne in the realme", p. [15-20], 5th count, has separate caption title.

"The principall fayres of England and Wales, orderly set foorth; with the moneth, day, and place, where they bee kept", p. [21-31], 5th count, has separate caption title.

Signatures: A-2Q⁸ (A1, A2 verso, A7 verso, A8, 2Q7 verso and 2Q8 blank)

Title printed within woodcut ornamental border; head and tail pieces; initials.

European Americana 618/128.

STC (2nd ed.) 23332.

English short title catalogue S117863.