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The first and second volumes of Chronicles : comprising 1 The description and historie of England : 2 The description and historie of Ireland : 3 The description and historie of Scotland

The edition statement follows the statement of responsibility on the title page of vol. 1 · Printer's name from STC; rest of imprint from colophon · Each section with separate title page, register, and pagination. Title page of vol. 3 reads: The third volume of Chronicles, beginning at duke William the Norman, commonlie called the Conqueror .. · The censorship of this, the second edition of Holinshed's Chronicles, is extensively documented. Numerous leaves -- primarily in the third volume -- were cancelled (excised) and replaced with less politically sensitive versions of the missing passages contained therein. This process resulted in several irregular sequences of pagination. In vol. 2, a single leaf, paged 421 on the recto and 424 on the verso replaced pages 421-424. A leaf paged 438/431 replaced pages 433-436, two leaves paged 443/444 and 445/450 replaced pages 443-450. In vol. 3, four leaves, paged 1419/1420, 1421/1490, 1491/1536, and 1537/1538 replaced pages 1419-1538, and three leaves, paged 1551/1552, 1553/1554, and 1555/1574 replaced pages 1551-1574 · Between 1723 and 1728, various publishing concerns produced at least three separate sets of facsimile reprints of the cance

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