IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 279296 accession number: PB 224-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 17 December 2020 updated: Thursday 17 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Printers of the various volumes vary. The 1577 edition was compiled by Holinshed, William Harrison and Richard Stanyhurst; the 1587 edition was edited by John Hooker, assisted by Francis Thynne, Abraham Fleming and John Stow. The present edition, reprinted from the 1587 edition, with the excisions ordered by the Privy council replaced, was edited by Sir Henry Ellis. One of a uniform series of chronicles published under the superintendence of Sir Henry Ellis and others. Includes "The description of Scotland ... by Hector Boetius ... Whereupon is inferred the Historie of Scotland", originally translated for the 1577 edition; also "The Irish history composed and written by Giraldus Cambrensis" translated for the edition of 1587. Index: vol. 6: pp.[463-723]. Old classmark: 540. Binding: by Caumont (binder's ticket). Calf, border (g. fillet); spine & board edges g.t., border g.t. on inside covers, raised bands, g. lettering; marbled e.p.; a.e. yellow. title: PB 224-2020 NOTES ----- type: history note value: Provenance: Fitzwilliam, 1808. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/279296 DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Holinshed, Raphael, maker: Harrison, William, maker: Stanyhurst, Richard, maker: Hooker, John, maker: Thynne, Francis, maker: Fleming, Abraham, maker: Stow, John, maker: Ellis, Henry, maker: Woodfall, George, maker: Johnson, J. maker: Payne, Thomas, maker: Mawman, Joseph, maker: Caumont, Auguste-Marie de, maker: Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 6 v ; 32cm (4to).