| Item Description: | "Immediately after the publication of the [second edition, 1586-87] of Holinshed's Chronicles the Privy Council ordered extensive expurgations" (NUC). - A reissue of the 1722 edition, with a cancel titlepage. - Edited by John Blackburn. - English Short Title Catalog, T201210. - Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 968, 1015. - Printed by William Bowyer (40 sheets) and Henry Parker (4 sheets); see K.I.D. Maslen, 'Three eighteenth-century reprints of the castrated sheets in Holinshed's Chronicles', The Library V, 13 (1958), 120-24 (reprinted in Maslen, 'An early London printing house at work', New York, 1993, pp. 27-32). - Reproduction of original from University of Texas. - The 1722 date originally printed was apparently an error, as proposals to print this edition did not appear until February 1723, and copies were not delivered until late June 1723; Bowyer's records show the titles as being reprinted separately. - These sheets were meant to be added to the surviving copies of the second edition of Raphael Holinshed's 'Chronicles' |
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