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The book called Holinshed's Chronicles : an account of its inception, purpose, contributors, contents, publication, revision, and influence on William Shakespeare / by Stephen Booth ; with a leaf from the 1587 edition.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Booth, Stephen, 1933-2020, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 130.
- Publication ... of The Book Club of California ; number 130
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holinshed, Raphael, approximately 1525-1580? Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande.
- Holinshed, Raphael.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Sources.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande (Holinshed, Raphael).
- Great Britain--History--To 1485--Historiography.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Historiography.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Arrighi.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Centaur.
- Edges, untrimmed (Binding)
- Leaf books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 83 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, coat of arms, facsimiles ; 37 cm.
- Manufacture:
- San Francisco : [P]rinted by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley.
- Other Title:
- Holinshed's Chronicles
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 1968.
- Notes:
- "Designed and printed in an edition of 500 copies by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. Presswork assistance by Clifford Burke. Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris, Inc., San Francisco in Centaur designed by Bruce Rogers and Arrighi designed by Frederic Warde. Photoengravings by the Graphic Arts Engraving Company, San Francisco. Curtis Rag Natural Laid and Tweedweave papers by the Curtis Paper Company, Newark, Delaware. Binding in Rohleinen spine and Tweedweave sides by the Schuberth Bookbindery, San Francisco"--Colophon.
- "Publication Number 130 of The Book Club of California"--Verso of title leaf.
- Original leaf from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles tipped in after preliminary page [9].
- "Half-title, divisional title and text heading in red, title in red and black. Facsimiles of illustrations and decorations from the 1587 edition throughout text."--Book Club of California.
- "Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: quarter beige cloth over brown and grey decorated boards; brown paper spine label printed in grey ("Holinshed's Chronicles"); red-illustrated gold endpapers; untrimmed edges.
- "List of principal authorities consulted": Pages [82]-83.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has tipped in leaf 3B3 (pages 489-490) of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (London: John Harison [and four others], 1587) (ESTC S122178).
- Cited in:
- Book Club of California. The two hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol2-The-Two-Hundredth-Book.pdf 130 (pages 17-18)
- Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, 130 (page 50)
- OCLC:
- 72395
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