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: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker alis̀ Vowell Gent and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.
Raphael Holinshed (1529-1580)
Category
Books
Date
1587
Materials
Measurements
404 x 267 x 100 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3066227.1
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: Contemporary Binder's Name: English - London End Leaves: Missing at front, with a sheet of drab grey wovepaper as pastedown trimmed to fit within turn-ins. On the ‘back’ board, remains of an outside hookof handmade laid paper within a parchment guard Structure: Sewn on six single strap-type tanned supportsEdges: Plain cut, showing proof, possibly originally coloured yellow Spine Lining: Moderate round with 45° joints, and no liningsEnd Bands: worked 2/2 left to right over single paper-roll cores in plain uncoloured thread. Cores cut at the joints Bookmark: NoneBoards: Beech wood boardswith external cushion along back edge with internal chamfer and bevel. Other edges square on internal and external edges. 1,2,5,6 of 6 slips only laced in. Shallow-angle back cornering. Covering: Brown tanned calf with early 19th-century pale brown calf overbackTooling Spine: Spine not visible. Later label and volume numberTooling Sides: Blind tooled boards with central lozenge formed by blind roll within a double roll frame within a triple fillet border Furniture: Originally had hook and bar type clasps and catchplates, the latter now removed, and stubs of lower strap surviving only Enclosure: NoneBinding Notes: In the course of the repair, the board have been reversed, so that the originla ront board in now at the back. Unusual colouration on inside of ‘back’ board which must apparently be original. The rolls are Oldham HE a (3) and HM a (3), ascribed by him to London, 1580-5.
Bibliographic description
1 vol containing vol..1 and vol..2. (vol. 1: [10], 250; [4], 202, [2] p.; vol. 2: 61, [13], 183, [1]; 421, 424-430, 436-438, 431-433, 439-445, 450-464, [56] p.; . fol.. Imperfect: vol. 2 wanting title page and final blank leaf. Wormed throughout. Provenance: manuscript price on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "Đ6: - 2 vol". manuscript initials on vol. 1 title page: "H: H:". manuscript inscription on inner rear board: "Mr[?] Hawes in Russell Court over ag[ain]st. ye ffoot Guards at St James's House". Binding: in sixteenth-century blind roll calf binding over wooden boards. Outer frame formed by borders of blind thin thick thin fillets; two middle frames of blind rolls: (1) with heads in medallions, (2) with castle gates, fleur-de-lys, heraldic shields, portcullises and roses, both signed with binder's mark; inner lozenge of blind rolls of type (2). NB These rolls need checking in Oldham. Bracket marks of pair of clasps and catches (missing). Double blind fillets on board edges. Completely rebacked with 17th/18th century tan calf, including a third of both upper and lower boards.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
Raphael Holinshed (1529-1580) William Harrison (1534-1593) John Hooker (1526-1601)