A summarie of the chronicles of England, from the first arriuing of Brute in this island, vnto his present yeere of Christ, 1590 / first collected, since inlarged, and now continued by John Stow ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stow, John, 1525?-1605.

Contributor:

Newbery, Ralph, -1604, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

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

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--1485-1603--Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Bunbury, Henry, Sir, 1778-1860 (bookplate)

Clements, Henry J. B. (Henry John Beresford), 1869-1940 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 760 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Svmmarie of the chronicles of England, from the first arriuing of Brute in this island, vnto this present yeere of Christ, 1590

Summarie of the chronicles of England, from the first arriving of Brute in this island, unto this present yeere of Christ, 1590

Fingerprint:

thnd s.he ashe wasi (3) 1590 (A)

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Ralph Newbery, Anno Domini 1590.

Notes:

The summary was first published in 1565 as A summarie of Englyshe chronicles (STC (2nd ed.) 23325.4).

Signatures: A-Y⁸ Aa-Yy⁸ Aaa-Eee⁸.

Various errors in pagination.

Title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson, 146(b)); woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Errata on leaf A8r.

"Formerly STC 23327. Identified as STC 23327 on UMI microfilm reel 1586."--ESTC.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 1586:13, 1803:53 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate ("Henry Edward Bunbury") of Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet, on front pastedown; bookplate with crest of Henry J.B. Clements on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf-mark ("H-5") on front pastedown; ms. provenance note ("Bt. at sale of Bunbury Lib. at Sothebys. July 7th 1896.") on verso of front free endpaper; ms. bibliographical and historical notes in pencil on first blank leaf at beginning of volume, last blank leaf at end of volume and back free endpaper; ms. notes in pencil regarding arms in woodcut title border on verso of blank leaf preceding title leaf; early ms. correction to text on leaf Hh8r.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full 19th-century calf; boards tooled in blind; blind-tooled spine panels; brief title ("STOW'S CHRONICLES") and imprint ("LONDON 1590.") stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt.

Penn Libraries copy: leaf F8 has small burn hole in lower portion of leaf; many leaves dampstained at head outer corner.

Cited in:

ESTC S111745

STC (2nd ed.), 23325.2

Folger. Printed books, 25:476

Read, C. Bib. of British history 1485-1603, no. 317

OCLC:

6912003