HOLINSHED, Raphael (d. c.1580) The First and Second [and Third] Volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland... to the yeare 1586 by John Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent. London: [H. Denham] at the expenses of John Harrison George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587. Second edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles: the true Shakespearean edition, established by W.G. Boswell-Stone and H.R.D. Anders as the edition on which Shakespeare based Richard II, Richard III, Macbeth, Henry IV, 2 parts, Henry V, Henry VI, 3 parts, Henry VIII and Cymbeline. He may also have used it for King Lear and King John although these were both modelled directly on earlier plays. The publication of this second edition was brought to the attention of Queen Elizabeth by the Privy Council and certain sections which she felt harmful were ordered removed. These passages dealt chiefly with Anglo-Scottish relations, the Babington plot and Leicester's campaign in the Low Countries. On 1 February 1587, the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered to recall and reform the book, the result being numerous cancels in the second and third volumes. In the 18th century, three reprints of the ‘castrated’ leaves were published, and many copies are found with these reprints inserted for the cancelled sections. STC 13569; see Maslen, ‘Three Eighteenth-Century Reprints of the Castrated Sheets in Holinshed's Chronicles’, The Library, ser. 5, XII (1958), p. 120-4. Three volumes in two, folio (373 x 237mm). Seven title-pages within woodcut borders, woodcut printer's device, numerous ornamental initials, head- and tail-pieces. 2Q3-4 in vol. II are provided in 18th-century reprint, and 2R3-4 are cancelled by a leaf paginated 438/431 and also provided in reprint; leaves 2S2-5 in vol. II and 6M3-4, 6V-7I, 7L-7M in vol. III are cancelled as per ESTC, with 18th-century reprints of the cancelled leaves provided at rear of vol. III. (A few minor tears and stains, some worming in vols. I and II occasionally into shoulder notes; title of vol. III slightly soiled and with pencil markings on verso.) 18th-century calf (rubbed, some short splits at joints). Provenance: George Kenyon of Peel, Esqr (d.1780; bookplate).
HOLINSHED, Raphael (d. c.1580) The First and Second [and Third] Volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland... to the yeare 1586 by John Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent. London: [H. Denham] at the expenses of John Harrison George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587. Second edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles: the true Shakespearean edition, established by W.G. Boswell-Stone and H.R.D. Anders as the edition on which Shakespeare based Richard II, Richard III, Macbeth, Henry IV, 2 parts, Henry V, Henry VI, 3 parts, Henry VIII and Cymbeline. He may also have used it for King Lear and King John although these were both modelled directly on earlier plays. The publication of this second edition was brought to the attention of Queen Elizabeth by the Privy Council and certain sections which she felt harmful were ordered removed. These passages dealt chiefly with Anglo-Scottish relations, the Babington plot and Leicester's campaign in the Low Countries. On 1 February 1587, the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered to recall and reform the book, the result being numerous cancels in the second and third volumes. In the 18th century, three reprints of the ‘castrated’ leaves were published, and many copies are found with these reprints inserted for the cancelled sections. STC 13569; see Maslen, ‘Three Eighteenth-Century Reprints of the Castrated Sheets in Holinshed's Chronicles’, The Library, ser. 5, XII (1958), p. 120-4. Three volumes in two, folio (373 x 237mm). Seven title-pages within woodcut borders, woodcut printer's device, numerous ornamental initials, head- and tail-pieces. 2Q3-4 in vol. II are provided in 18th-century reprint, and 2R3-4 are cancelled by a leaf paginated 438/431 and also provided in reprint; leaves 2S2-5 in vol. II and 6M3-4, 6V-7I, 7L-7M in vol. III are cancelled as per ESTC, with 18th-century reprints of the cancelled leaves provided at rear of vol. III. (A few minor tears and stains, some worming in vols. I and II occasionally into shoulder notes; title of vol. III slightly soiled and with pencil markings on verso.) 18th-century calf (rubbed, some short splits at joints). Provenance: George Kenyon of Peel, Esqr (d.1780; bookplate).
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