The Abridgement of the English Chronicle,
first collected by M. Iohn Stow, and after him augmented with very many memorable Antiquities, and continued with matters forreine and domesticall, vnto the beginning of the yeare, 1618.
London, Imprinted at London for the Company of Stationers, 1618
'Odd events such as the birth of lion cubs in the Tower of London and the discovery of a whale's dead body far up the Thames estuary, in which one might see omens or the hand of God, contrast with lengthy discussions on important political events such as the Gunpowder Plot, the creation of the East India Company, and news from Virginia, where Stow had chronicled the history of English efforts at colonization from 1584 to his date of writing' (ODNB).
Howes took over the imprint following Stow's death in 1605 'After I had well observed, that no man woulde lend a helping hande vnto the late aged painfull Chronicler: nor in many moneths after his death, that any would expose or shew themselues to prosecute so good a work' (Epistle Dedicatory).
With notable provenance for Frederick Morrell (1839-1908), Mayor of Oxford 1899-1900. His daughter-in-law was the socialite and notable Bloomsbury Group alumna, Lady Ottoline Morrell.
8vo (17 x 11.5 cm); woodcut title, initials, head and tailpieces, dated armorial bookplate to front pastedown, later endpapers, front endpapers and first quire coming loose from text block, occasional spotting, lacking final blank; contemporary vellum, yapp edges, later MS title and date in pen to spine, slightly soiled, a little warped, very good; [16], 464, 467-486, 489-568, [42]pp.
ESTC S117863.
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