LOT 3128
10th July 2012
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LOT 3128
[HOLINSHED, Ralph. The Chronicles of England from the First Beginning. N.p.: n.d. but 1577.] 2 vols., 8vo (278 x 183mm.) Numerous woodcuts, including a double-page map of Edinburgh. (Double-page map shaved and torn with some loss, some other shaving with loss to some headings, etc., lacking title-pages but replaced with a letterpress title contained in a woodcut border, pp.291-305 supplied from a smaller copy, pp. 1247-1249 and 1389-1390 replaced in manuscript by a 19th Century hand.) Early 20th Century half-calf (spines slightly faded and rubbed, endpapers replaced). Provenance: Charles Arthur Wynne Finch (armorial bookplates to front pastedowns). Note: lacking parts on Scotland and Ireland in vol. I, see Lowndes.
Hammer price: £1,200
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