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HOLINSHED, Raphael (d. ca. 1580). The First and Second 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 . -- The Chronicles of England, from William the Conquerour... until the yeare 1577... And continued from the yeare 1577, untill this present yeare of Grace 1585. . Edited by John Hooker, assisted by Francis Thynne, Abraham Fleming and John Stow. London: [H. Denham] at the expenses of John Harrison George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587. 3 volumes bound in 4, 2 o (348 x 224 mm). COMPLETE: (Vol. II: Qq2-3 cancels, Qq4 cancelled; Rr2.5 and Rr3 cancels, Rr4 cancelled; Ss2.5 cancel, Ss3.4 cancelled; Vol. III: Mmmmmm3.4 uncancelled; Uuuuuu2 [signed A,B,C,D,E] and Uuuuuu3.4 [3 signed F,G,H,I] cancels, Uuuuuu5-6 and quires Aaaaaaa-Iiiiiii cancelled; Lllllll1 and the bifolium signed Lllllll2 and Mmmmmmm1 cancels, the remainder of quires Lllllll and Mmmmmmm cancelled). Cancel title in vol. III. Gothic type, double column. Seven title-pages within woodcut borders (McKerrow and Ferguson 147a, 148, 122 and 138), woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 211), numerous ornamental initials, head- and tail-pieces. Index to vols I and II divided and bound at the end of both; the history of Scotland bound after the two parts of the history of Ireland in volume II, as in Lowndes. (Approximately 50 leaves apparently supplied, most in the third volume; Vol. I: K4 with two tape repairs affecting text, blank R6 removed; Vol. II: blank π8 removed; Vol. III: title trimmed to border and mounted, A2 dedication leaf with inner margin renewed, N3 and Aa6 with marginal repairs affecting shoulder notes; occasional minor marginal repairs, a few rust-holes catching a few letters.) Mid 19th-century English blue straight-grained morocco gilt in the style of Bozerian, sides panelled in gilt and in blind, spines richly tooled in gilt, gilt-lettered on spines, board edges and turn-ins gilt, edges gilt (two bands on vol. II very lightly rubbed, lower cover of volume II with two small bumps). Provenance : A.G. ?Hunter (signature on flyleaf in vol. I) -- R.A. Oswald ("Auchincruive" booklabels) -- purchased from Scribner Rare Books, New York, 3 September 1969. Second edition of THE "TRUE" SHAKESPEARE 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 in later bindings are found with these reprints inserted for the cancelled sections. The present copy is found with all of the original cancels except Mmmmmm3.4 (pp.1328-31) in vol. III, which is in its original uncancelled state, and is preserved without any of the replacement leaves. This copy is bound according to the order of texts listed by Lowndes, varying from Hazlitt's description which places the Description of Scotland in the first volume. The final leaf in volume one is not present, unidentified by Hazlitt but listed as the "Dedication to the Reader" by Lowndes. A variant title transcription from that in Hazlitt for the second section on Ireland is also found. Hazlitt I, 218-219; Lowndes 1086-108