Accession number
PML 7997
Creator
Fabyan, Robert.
Published
London : John Kyngston, 1559 April.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
2 vols. in 1. V. 1, Title & table 12 ff, 369 p. ; v. 2, Title 1 f, 571 p., 2 cols., 46 lines; woodcut borders on the titles.
Second volume (begins aai) Title, within a woodcut border: "The seconde volume of Fabians Chronicle" continues through Charles the ninth.
With final blank leaf.
Points: BBB3r catchword "The"; text ends on BBB5v without colophon. According to STC, these are the result of cancels.
Settings in vol. 1 as follows: d3r col.1 line 7 "slayn"; o1r col. 2 line 1 ends "English".
Second volume (begins aai) Title, within a woodcut border: "The seconde volume of Fabians Chronicle" continues through Charles the ninth.
With final blank leaf.
Points: BBB3r catchword "The"; text ends on BBB5v without colophon. According to STC, these are the result of cancels.
Settings in vol. 1 as follows: d3r col.1 line 7 "slayn"; o1r col. 2 line 1 ends "English".
Description
2 v. in 1 ; 27 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations: Several early notations, including early purchase note: "7s, 19 June 1562" (leaf A1r).
Provenance
Rowland Tryon, signature, 1697 (leaf A1r); George Templeton Strong, signature, 1846 (leaf A1r); Hamilton Cole (1844-1889); his sale, Bangs & Co., 7 April 1890; Theodore Irwin, purchased from John Rivers, 1890; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Modern red calf, rebound in Thaw Conservation Center, 2016.
Classification
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Department