The Book Called Holinshed's Chronicles. An Account of Its Inception, Purpose, Contributors, Contents, Publication, Revision and Influence on William Shakespeare

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1968 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 500 copies beautifully designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley. Folio. 83pp. Text illustrations, original leaf tipped-in. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. Edges of covers slightly faded (as usual). A very fine copy. Contains an original leaf from the second, very much enlarged, 1587 edition of the Chronicles, a massive compendium of all human knowledge of geography and history as understood during the Renaissance. "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" (from the introduction)..