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[12], 192, [8]; [2], 1369, [43] p. : ill. (woodcuts) |
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"To the gentle reader" signed: Richard Grafton. |
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At foot of title: Cum priuilegio. |
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Imprint from colophon except for publication date. Month date from colophon. |
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"This seconde volume, beginning at VVilliam the Conquerour .." has separate pagination, register, and title page dated 1568. |
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Includes indexes. |
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A few of the illustrations were cut by Virgil Solis. |
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5T1.6 and 6A3.4 are each in two settings; 5T6r has catchword (1) "of" or (2) "selfe"; 6A3v has catchword (1) "But" or (2) "to". The first version of each treats the Duke of Norfolk's attainder before Henry VIII's death as supposed, the latter as fact. |
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Identified as STC 12146 on UMI microfilm reel 545. |
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Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and the British Library. |
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Appears at reel 205 and 286 (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery copies) and at reel 545 (British Library copy). |
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Reel 286: Cropped; t.p. mutilated. Reel 545: vol. 2 only; title page doctored to read "This chronicle. of Briteyn ..". |
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