Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (v.2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (v.2)
Other titles: Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande
Classmark: Large Leeds Phil. and Lit. Q/HOL
Creator(s): Holinshed, Raphael (1580)
Additional creator(s): Harrison, William (1534-1593) (Other); Stanyhurst, Richard (1547-1618) (Other); Hooker, John (1526-) (Other); Thynne, Francis (1545?-1608) (Other); Fleming, Abraham (1552?-1607) (Other); Stow, John (1525-1605) (Other); Ellis, Sir Henry (1777-1869) (Other)
Related people: Harrison, William; Stanyhurst, Richard; Hooker, John; Thynne, Francis; Fleming, Abraham; Stow, John; Ellis, Henry
Publisher: Richard Taylor & Co for J Johnson; FC and J Rivington; T Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; and J Mawman
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1807-08
Language: English
Size and medium: 6 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/243771
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014743039705181
Collection group(s): Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
Description
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.
Contents: v.1-4. England. 1807-8.--v.5. Scotland. 1808.--v.6. Ireland. 1808.
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