Coopers chronicle
Subtitle: contenynge the vvhole discourse of the histories as well of thys realme, as all other countreis, with the succession of theyr kynges, the tyme of theyr raign and what notable actes were done by the[m] : newely enlarged and augmented as well in the first parte wyth diuers profitable histories ... vnto the vii yere of the raigne of our most gracious Quene Elizabeth that nowe is.
Contributors: Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1565
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: World history -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has two bookplates: William Strickland of Boynton and Eustachius Strickland.
STC (2nd ed.) 15220
Title within line borders; Side-notes; "An admonition to the reader," on t.p. verso, warns against the pirated ed. published by Marsh and Seres in 1559.
"Four title-pages were printed to this fourth edition of the work, and the preliminary leaves were also republished with variations. In three of these issues now before me the "Admonition" occurs on the back of the title, but in a fourth it is omitted.  Changes were likewise introduced into the ending leaves, the body of the volume remained the same. Two of the 1565 issues are dated August 1, one April 20, and the other has only the year.  There is little or no doubt that ... copies were made up at the time"--Hazlitt, W.C. Second series of bibl. collections and notes, 1882, p. 334.
First published 1549 under title: An epitome of chronicles ... gathered ... fyrst, by Thomas Lanquet, from the beginnyng of the world to the incarnation of Christ, and now continued ... by Thomas Cooper.
Signatures: a⁶ b² c-d⁸ g⁴ h² A-2Z⁸ ²A⁸ ²C-D⁴.
LC copy has ms. notes on the fly-leaves and in the margins.  At the end are 21 p. containing, "A continuation for 100 years, viz. from 1564 to 1664," with an index.