Fabyan's chronicle

Title

Fabyan's chronicle

Alternative Title

Full title: Fabyans cronycle newly prynted wyth the cronycle, actes, and dedes done in the tyme of the reygne of the moste excellent prynce kynge Henry the vii. father vnto our most drad souerayne lord kynge Henry the viii. ...

Creator

Robert Fabyan, -1513.

Publisher

Prentyd at London : by wyllyam Rastell

Date

1533

Format

2 volumes in 1 ([10], CLXXIII (i.e. CLXXIIII); [8], CCXXXIIII leaves) : coat of arms, 2 genealogical tables ; 29 cm

Description

Title within woodcut border with printer's initials. Cf. McKerrow & Ferguson, no. 20.

Special title page for volume 2: The seconde volume of Fabyans cronycle conteynyng the cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, from the begynnyng of the reygne of king Rycharch the fyrste, untyll the begynnyng of the reyne of our moste redoubted souerayne lord kynge Henry the. viii.

Colophon (v. 2): Thus endeth Fabyans cronycle. Printed by. w. Rastell [and] fynyshed the laste daye of December, in the yere ... M.v.C. and XXXiii.

Woodcut on verso of title page: Fabyan's arms. Cf. A.W. Reed. The editor of Sir Thomas More's English works: William Rastell (in The Library, 4th series, volume 4, no. 1)--page 33.

In double columns; foliated.

Initials; printed marginal notes.

First printed, 1516, by Pynson, under title: The newe chronycles of Englande and of Fraunce.

This second edition includes a continuation from the Battle of Bosworth to the death of Henry VII.

Title page, leaf A6 of the table and final leaf in good facsimile; remnant of original final leaf also present.

Provenance

Bookplates of Philip Lord Hardwicke, Baron of Hardwicke, and of Philip Grantham Yorke, 9th Earl of Hardwicke--autograph letter from the latter, mounted on rear flyleaf, describing the first Hardwicke bookplate; typed biographical and binding notes mounted on rear pastedown.

Binding by Eric Horne, January 1970.

Inscription dated 1576 on Aiir; marginal notes (some cropped) in early hand.

Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf Fund, May 2016.

Contributor

Rastell, William, 1508?-1565, printer.
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, former owner.
Horne, Eric, binder.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

Language

English

Identifier

Dated 1533 .F33 folio
STC (2nd ed.) 10660
ESTC 121369

Files

Dated 1533 F33 folio.jpg
Dated 1533 F33 folio-2nd volume title page.jpg

Collection

Citation

Robert Fabyan, -1513., “Fabyan's chronicle,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed March 28, 2024, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/147.