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.

Folio. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1968. Folio, (8), 81 pp. Printed in red and black, il...

1968 · San Francisco

by [Leaf Book]. Booth, Stephen.
Folio. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1968. Folio, (8), 81 pp. Printed in red and black, illustrated with woodcuts from the original edition. Original quarter gray-colored cloth over decorated boards. Stuart B. Schimmel bookplate. A touch of sunning to the upper board, very good. Original prospectus, announcement and other ephemera laid in. § Limited to 500 copies printed by Adrian Wilson, this being one of the five extremely rare de luxe copies that contain a title page or colophon from the 1587 edition. This leaf here is the richly ornamented title page to the description of Scotland. (Inventory #: 104830)
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