Date:1587
Description:An ornamented binding on a large ‘folio’ volume of Shakespeare's time. This copy of the enlarged edition of Holinshed's Chronicles has its original leather binding which covers heavy wooden boards, but the spine is a twentieth century replacement. The boards still have their decorative metal bosses, and signs of the clasps which would have helped to keep the volume firm if standing, probably with its fore-edge, rather than the spine, facing out on a shelf in its owner’s library. Full title: Raphael Holinshed, The first and second volumes of chronicles[The thirde volume, etc.]... Now newlie augmented and continued... to the yeare 1586 by Iohn Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others... [London] at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587.
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Donor ref:SR/OS 93 [894] (32/10656)
Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library
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