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HOLINSHED (RAPHAEL) 1577. The Firste [-Laste] Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Irelande, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, [1577]
15 September 2021, 13:00 BST
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HOLINSHED (RAPHAEL)
1577. The Firste [-Laste] Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Irelande, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, volume 1 lacking errata leaf r1, volume 2 with title, inserted leaf foliated 1593, map of Edinburgh, and final 4 leaves supplied in facsimile, side-notes and a few catchwords trimmed, nineteenth century diced calf, rebacked, rubbed [ESTC S121346; Pforzheimer 494], folio (275 x 185mm.), Imprinted [by Henry Bynneman] for John Harrison, [1577]
Footnotes
Provenance: William, Thomas and Walter Hawes, early ownership inscriptions near end of volume 2; Silvanus Chirm, Kentish Town, stamped ownership mark on flyleaves dated 1785; George Wilbraham (1779-1852), bookplates. Silvanus Chirm was a bookseller who "made an attempt to replace 'the deceitful Practice of stabbed Bindings' with books sewn on bands" (N. Pickwoad, 'Bookbinding in the eighteenth century,' Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 5. 1695–1830, p.287).