The first and second volumes of Chronicles
Subtitle: comprising 1 The description and historie of England : 2 The description and historie of Ireland : 3 The description and historie of Scotland
By: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others
Contributors: Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618; Harrison, William, 1534-1593; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607; Stow, John, 1525?-1605; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601; Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536; Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?; Denham, Henry, -1589?, printer; Harrison, John, -1617, bookseller; Bishop, George, -1611, bookseller; Newbery, Ralph, -1604, bookseller; Woodcock, Thomas, -1594, bookseller; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Edition: Now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586 / by Iohn Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.
Publisher: Finished in Ianuarie 1587, and the 29 of the Queenes Maiesties reigne, with the full continuation of the former yeares, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas VVoodcocke. At London printed [by Henry Denham] in Aldersgate street at the signe of the Starre
Published: 1587
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Early works to 1800; History
Other titles: Historie of England; Irish historie; Description of Scotland; Historie of Scotland
Work titles: Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande
Notes: The edition statement follows the statement of responsibility on the title page of vol. 1.

Printer's name from STC; rest of imprint from colophon.

Each section with separate title page, register, and pagination. Title page of vol. 3 reads: The third volume of Chronicles, beginning at duke William the Norman, commonlie called the Conqueror ...

The censorship of this, the second edition of Holinshed's Chronicles, is extensively documented. Numerous leaves -- primarily in the third volume -- were cancelled (excised) and replaced with less politically sensitive versions of the missing passages contained therein. This process resulted in several irregular sequences of pagination. In vol. 2, a single leaf, paged 421 on the recto and 424 on the verso replaced pages 421-424. A leaf paged 438/431 replaced pages 433-436, two leaves paged 443/444 and 445/450 replaced pages 443-450. In vol. 3, four leaves, paged 1419/1420, 1421/1490, 1491/1536, and 1537/1538 replaced pages 1419-1538, and three leaves, paged 1551/1552, 1553/1554, and 1555/1574 replaced pages 1551-1574.

Between 1723 and 1728, various publishing concerns produced at least three separate sets of facsimile reprints of the cancelled passages for sale to collectors who wished to "complete" their expurgated copies. For further information, see Maslen, K.I.D. "Three eighteenth-century reprints of the castrated sheets in Holinshed́s Chronicles." The Library. Vol. XIII, no.2 (1958), pp. 120-124.

Signatures (vol. 1): A-Ýœ, ℗øA-Ŕœ.

Signatures (vol. 2): ℗đA-Éœ, ́þÁœ(́þA1+1) ́þB-Q́œ ℗đR℗ø, ́æA-V́œ 2A-2Ńœ 2Óþ 2Ṕœ 2Q́œ(-2Q3.4+'2Q3') 2Ŕœ(-2R3.4+'2R3') 2Śœ(-2S2.5+'2S2.3') 2T́œ, ́œÁœ ́œB́ı *́œ ℗œ́ı.

Signatures (vol. 3): ́ʺA-V́œ ℗ø2A-2V́œ 3A-3V́œ 4A-4V́œ 5A-5V́œ 6A-6Ĺœ 6Ḿœ(-6M3.4+'6M3') 6N-6T́œ 6V́œ(-6V́œ+'6V1') 7A-7Íœ(-7A-7Íœ+'A,B,C,D,E'1,2,3) 7Ḱœ 7L-7Ḿœ(-7L-7Ḿœ+7L℗ø,7M1) 7Ńœ 7Óþ, ́ıC-Ǵœ.

Title page vignettes; head- and tailpieces; initials.

The first and last leaves of vol. 1 (A1, ℗øR6) are blank, as is the last leaf of vol. 2 (℗œ8). The leaf preceding the index in vol. 3 (7O4) and the last leaf of vol. 3 (́ıG6) are blank.

Includes indexes.

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Misc., page 279

English short title catalogue, entry S122178

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 13569

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in red, 19th century morocco panelled and tooled in gilt. The spines are panelled and tooled in gilt with the title likewise stamped. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedowns. A lengthy, erased inscription in a ca. 16th/early 17th century secretary hand is present on the colophon leaf (́ıG5).

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy contains numerous leaves from what Maslen identifies as the "Dr. Drake" facsimile reprint of 1728, identifiable by the extra signatures in the left side of their lower margins. These include sheets 2Q3.4 and 2S2.5, though the facsimile sheet 2R3.4 is not present. In vol. 3, Drake facsimile leaves A5, A6, and B1 are bound-in before the original A5-B1 sequence, and 78 Drake facsimile cancellanda, signed 6V́œ-7Ḿœ and comprising the pagination sequence 1419-1574, are bound-in after the cancel signed "A,B,C,D,E". Eleven additional Drake leaves, beginning with ́ıF1, are bound-in between ́ıE6 and ́ıF1 in the index tables. In vol. 1 A3 (first sequence) is misbound after A4. In vol. 3 the title page is remargined and A2 is misbound after A4. The first (blank) leaf of vol. 1 (A1) is wanting, as are the two blank leaves in vol. 3 (7O4 and ́ıG6).