HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES w/original 1587 edition LEAF !!!

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RARE MEDIUM PRICE ONLINE $275.00THE BOOK CALLED HOLINSHED'S CHRONICLES., An Account of its Inception, Purpose, Contributors, Contents, Publication, Revision and Influence on William Shakespeare. With a Leaf from the 1587 edition. Booth, Stephen. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1968 First edition. Limited edition of 500 copies. Contains an original leaf from 1587 edition of the Chronicles tipped in ( the top of the page is entitled "Henrie the Eight") . Designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley. Tall folio 9 x 14 ( larger than scan) buckram cloth/backed illustrated boards sunning to top and rear covers else VERY GOOD +++ condition crisp clean ; 83 pages. From the introduction. "The Chronicles are remembered not for themselves but for one of their readers - William Shakespeare... The Chronicles were an important source for thirteen of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays" "Raphael Holinshed (1529–1580) was an English chronicler , whose work, commonly known as Holinshed's Chronicles , was one of the major sources used by William Shakespeare for a number of his plays . He is thought to have come from Cheshire , but lived in London, where he worked as a translator for the printer Reginald Wolfe . Wolfe gave him the project of compiling a world history from the Flood to the reign of Queen Elizabeth . This read more

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