A chronicle at large and meere history of the affayres of Englande and kinges of the same : deduced from the creation of the worlde, vnto the first habitation of thys islande and so by contynuance vnto the first yere of the reigne of our most deere and souereigne lady Queene Elizabeth : collected out of sundry aucthors whose names are expressed in the next page of this leafe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grafton, Richard, -1572?

Contributor:

Solis, Virgil, 1514-1562.

Denham, Henry, -1589?, printer.

Tottel, Richard, -1594, publisher.

Toy, Humphrey, 1540?-1577, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Great Britain--History--To 1485--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Penn Provenance:

Paul, Henry N. (donor) (RBC copy 1)

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree) (RBC copy 1)

Jones, Meg (autograph) (RBC copy 1)

Salter, James (autograph) (RBC copy 1)

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (bookplate) (donor) (RBC copy 2)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages; 2 unnumbered pages, 1369 pages, 43 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Henry Denham ... at the costes and charges of Richard Tottle and Humffrey Toye, Anno 1569 the last of March.

Notes:

"To the gentle reader" signed: Richard Grafton.

Vol. 2 has separate pagination and signatures and special dated t.p.: "This seconde volume, beginning at William the Conquerour, endeth wyth our moste dread and soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth. Seene and alowed according to the order apointed ... Anno. 1568."

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: pi⁶ A-Q⁶ R⁴, ²A-Y⁶ 2A-2Y⁶ 3A-3Y⁶ 4A-4Y⁶ 5A-5Y⁶ 6A-6D⁶ 6E² a-b⁸ c⁶(-c6).

Numerous errors in pagination.

Titles within illustrated woodcut borders; woodcut illustrations, initials, tail-pieces and printer's device.

Printed marginalia.

"Colophon varies; Denham 'for' or 'at the costes and charges of' ... 5T1,6 and 6A3,4 are in 2 settings; p. 1281 has catchword: (a) 'of' or (b) 'selfe'; p. 1324 has catchword (a) 'But' or (b) 'to'; the (a) varieties treat the Duke of Norfolk's attainder before Henry VIII's death as supposed; the (b) varieties treat it as fact ... "--STC.

"With slips-cancel on leaf ²A2r, third line from bottom and on leaf b7v covering the four last lines."--ESTC.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries RBC copies 1 and 2 are variant with p. 1281 catchword "of" and p. 1324 catchword "But".

Penn Libraries RBC copy 1 imperfect: cancel slip on leaf b7v wanting; last three gatherings misbound as follows: c, b, a.

Penn Libraries RBC copy 1 has a few ms. marginal marks in pencil and a few ms. corrections to text in ink; leaf 2M2 mended at bottom outer corner without loss of text; bottom corner of leaves 4H2 and 6B6 torn off without loss of text; wormhole in bottom margin of leaves 4E3-4Y2; leaves c3, c4 and c5 mended at outer margin.

Penn Libraries RBC copy 2 imperfect: leaves pi2-6 wanting; leaf b8 wanting; cancel slips on leaves ²A2r and b7v wanting; leaf A1 mended at at all margins with minor damage to text and loss of side-notes; leaf A2 mended at bottom and outer margins with loss of side-notes and page numbers; leaf A3 mended at outer margin with damage to and loss of some side-notes and loss of page number; leaves A5 and A6 mended at top margin with loss of page numbers and running-title; leaves B1 and B2 mended at top margin with loss of or damage to running-titles and page numbers and some loss of and damage to text; leaf B6, C1 and C6 mended at top margin with some loss of text and loss of running title and page number; leaves C3 and C4 mended at bottom margin with some loss of text and catchwords; leaf b7 mended at bottom and outer margins; leaf c5 mended at top margin.

Penn Libraries RBC copy 2 has slip with bookseller's printed description attached to front pastedown; bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on front free endpaper; a few ms. marginal marks in pencil and marginal ms. notes in ink.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.), 12147

ESTC, S121210

OCLC:

23936042