A briefe chronicle of the successe of times from the creation of the world to this instant : containing the originall & liues of our ancient fore-fathers before and after the floud : as also of all the monarchs, emperours, kinges, popes, kindomes, common-weales, estates and gouernments in most nations of this worlde : and how in alteration, or succession, they haue continued to this day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.

Contributor:

Jaggard, William, 1569-1623, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history--Early works to 1800.

World history.

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 613, that is, 611 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 17 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by W. Iaggard ..., 1611.

Notes:

Dedications signed: A. Mundy.

Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C-2R⁸ 2S².

Numerous errors in pagination; the numbers 190-191 are omitted.

Woodcuts: title vignette, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Variant 1: with gathering B, containing a dedication "To the ancient, woorthy, and right worshipfull company of the gold-smiths" and "A table of the seuerall arguments handled in this booke". Variant 2: without gathering B. Cf. ESTC.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 896:4 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Library copy is variant 2 without gathering B. The gathering is supplied in photocopy and laid in at the beginning of the book.

Several leaves at end of book mended at outer margin.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 18263

ESTC S112963

OCLC:

20000339