Annales, or, a generall chronicle of England. Begun by Iohn Stow: continued and augmented with matters forraigne and domestique, ancient and moderne, vnto the end of this present yeere, 1631. By Edmund Howes, Gent.
1631
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Annales, or, a generall chronicle of England. Begun by Iohn Stow: continued and augmented with matters forraigne and domestique, ancient and moderne, vnto the end of this present yeere, 1631. By Edmund Howes, Gent.
Created/published
Londini : [printed by John Beale, Bernard Alsop, Thomas Fawcett, and Augustine Mathewes] impensis Richardi Meighen, 1631 [i.e. 1632]
Description
[20], 537, 540-819, 819-891, 891-897, p. 890, 900-901, 991-1,014, 1,003-1,050, [2], 1,057-1,062, [4], 1,063-1,087, [31] p. ; (fol.)
Associated name
Stow, John, 1525?-1605, author.
Buck, George, Sir, 1560?-1622.
Howes, Edmund, active 1607-1631.
Alsop, Bernard, printer.
STC 23340 copy 4 Currer, Frances Mary Richardson, 1785-1861, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Buck, George, Sir, 1560?-1622.
Howes, Edmund, active 1607-1631.
Alsop, Bernard, printer.
STC 23340 copy 4 Currer, Frances Mary Richardson, 1785-1861, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Note
Beale printed the preliminaries, quires A-G, and 2A-3C; Alsop and Fawcett printed H-Z; Mathewes printed 3D-4S (STC).
"An appendix or corollary of the foundations and descriptions of the three most famous vniuersities of England .. The third was collected and written by Sir George Buck .." has separate title page with imprint "London: printed by Aug. Matthevves .. 1632."; "The third vniuersitie of England" has separate dated title page; register and pagination are continuous throughout.
Includes index.
The last leaf is blank.
Signatures: *² [par.]⁸ A-4I⁶ 4K⁴ 4L-4M⁶ 4N² 4n⁴ 4O-4P⁶ 4Q⁴ 4R⁶ 4S⁸.
"An appendix or corollary of the foundations and descriptions of the three most famous vniuersities of England .. The third was collected and written by Sir George Buck .." has separate title page with imprint "London: printed by Aug. Matthevves .. 1632."; "The third vniuersitie of England" has separate dated title page; register and pagination are continuous throughout.
Includes index.
The last leaf is blank.
Signatures: *² [par.]⁸ A-4I⁶ 4K⁴ 4L-4M⁶ 4N² 4n⁴ 4O-4P⁶ 4Q⁴ 4R⁶ 4S⁸.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Copy 1 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015. Age of Lawyers. Opening: tp.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 23340
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S117586
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S117586
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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STC 23340 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs92. Foxed; print show-through; scattered small stains affecting text. Bound in old calf; spine elaborately gilt, with red leather label. Provenance: Fountaine family library copy; inscribed on front fly-leaf and scribbled out: "... Pykering ..." and date "1620", price "pret: xiiijs"; on t.p.: "Edward Newman"; Folger purchase from Sotheby's, 11 June 1902, no. 809
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STC 23340 copy 2
Folger-specific note
Smedley. Wanting the blank. Manuscript marking on 3Y5v ("James"); manuscript notes on back paste-down verso (now pasted down); leaf 3L3 torn, affecting side-notes; 2E5 torn and repaired, affecting text; foxed; print show-through; dampstained. Bound in old calf, with manuscript spine title. Provenance: inscribed on back paste-down: "William Crofts", "Thoma[s] ..."; anr. Manuscript name covered by Smedley bookplate on front paste-down; armorial bookplate of the Outer Library of Thomas Eyre Esq.; W.T. Smedley copy, with his bookplate (motto: Forward)
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STC 23340 copy 3
Folger-specific note
cs760. Wanting the blank. Leaf *1 (title) re-margined; leaf [par.]1 torn and repaired, affecting text; 3S3 torn, affecting text; print show-through. Bound in old calf gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Provenance: Folger purchase from Anderson, 13 Feb. 1918, no. 863
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STC 23340 copy 4
Folger-specific note
cs755. Wanting the blank. T.p. backed; G4 misbound before G3; holes in 2G5 and 2M4, affecting text; 2Q2 torn, affecting text; trimmed, affecting some side-notes; foxed. Bound in old tan blind- and gilt-tooled calf. Provenance: inscribed on *2r: "Jo: [John] Hopkinson"; armorial bookplates of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861) and of (Sir) Mathew Wilson (1875-1958) (motto: Res non verba); Sotheby sale, 31 May 1916; Charles J. Grove copy; Folger purchase from Anderson sale of Grove books, 13 Dec. 1917, no. 92
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STC 23340 copy 5
Folger-specific note
Smedley. Imperfect: wanting leaves 2S1.6. Trimmed, affecting some side-notes; dampstained and foxed, affecting text; manuscript markings (manicules, etc.); 2X6v-2Y1r ink-stained, affecting text. Bound in old paneled calf. Provenance: W.T. Smedley copy, with his bookplate (motto: Forward)
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STC 23340 copy 6
Folger-specific note
4/7/48. Imperfect: leaf *1 (t.p.) mutilated, affecting title, etc.; wanting the blank. *2-[par.]2 badly frayed, affecting text; 2Y1 torn, affecting text; hole in 3C6, affecting text; 4M3 torn, affecting text etc.; margins trimmed, affecting some side-notes; many leaves poorly repaired; text generally frayed, stained and moldered. Formerly bound with a 10-leaf manuscript entitled "A Note of such passages as haue beene omitted In, and I haue seene since the Printing of Stowes Suruay of London in 4⁰. 1618, and this Cronicle at large. 1631", which was removed from the volume in Feb. 1963 and is now cat. as Folger manuscript V.b.275; old vellum has been removed from boards, inner faces of which show manuscript off-set (from a deed); housed, with a modern reprint of the manuscript additions, in a clamshell box. Provenance: Pickering sale, 1844 (Folger files); Sir Thomas Phillipps copy (1792-1872); Folger purchase from Robinson, cat. 77:138, 1948