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(Shakespeare, William) Booth, Stephen. The Book Called Holinshed's Chronicles. An Account of Its Inception, Purpose, Contriutors, Contents, Publication, Revision and Influence on William Shakespeare By Stephen Booth, with a Leaf from the 1587 edition. The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1968.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition (with leaf from 'Holinshed's Chronicles'); limited to 500 copies, with a Leaf from the 1587 edition ["Designed and printed in an edition of 500 copies by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. Presswork assistance by Clifford Burke. Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris, Inc., San Francisco in Centaur designed by Bruce Rogers and Arrighi designed by Frederic Warde. Photoengravings by the Graphic Arts Engraving Company, San Francisco. Curtis Rag Natural Laid and Tweedweave papers by the Curtis Paper Company, Newark, Delaware. Binding in Rohleinen spine and Tweedweave sides by the Schuberth Bookbindery, San Francisco" (Colophon)]. The original printed leaf has early age toning, else fine. A fine copy; also present is the original shipping carton (with Book Club of California shipping label, addressed to a collector in the United Kingdom, and with their postal instructions written in red crayon, on unprinted flaps of shipping carton) First edition (with leaf from 'Holinshed's Chronicles'); limited to 500 copies, with a Leaf from the 1587 edition ["Designed and printed in an edition of 500 copies by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. Presswork assistance by Clifford Burke. Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris, Inc., San Francisco in Centaur designed by Bruce Rogers and Arrighi designed by Frederic Warde. Photoengravings by the Graphic Arts Engraving Company, San Francisco. Curtis Rag Natural Laid and Tweedweave papers by the Curtis Paper Company, Newark, Delaware. Binding in Rohleinen spine and Tweedweave sides by the Schuberth Bookbindery, San Francisco" (Colophon)].

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Booth, Stephen. THE BOOK CALLED Holinshed's Chronicles, An account of its inception, purpose, contributors, contents, publication, revision and influence on William Shakespeare with a leaf from the 1587 edition. The Book Club of California, SAN FRANCISCO, 1968.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: 35.5 x 21.5 cm., 2 blank, half title and title both printed in red and black; Number 130 of The Book Club of California, published in 1968 by The Book Club of California in San Francisco Dedicated to James D. Hart; 1-81 pp. and colophon "Designed and printed in an edition of 500 copies by Adrian Wilson at his press in Tuscany Alley in San Francisco"; an original leaf from the 1587 Holinshed's Chronicle( leaf is pages 1218, 1219, Queene Elizabeth etc.); end papers in yellow with 4 red pictures per page, covesr are gray paper with 9 pictures in white and half-linen cloth with gray labels and white printing.

Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Booth, Stephen. The Book Called Holinshed's Chronicles. An Account of Its Inception, Purpose, Contriutors, Contents, Publication, Revision and Influence on William Shakespeare. The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1968.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Limited edition of 500 copies. Folio. 83pp. Text illustrations, original leaf tipped-in. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. Spine label slightly faded, else a very fine copy. Limited to 500 copies beautifully designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley. Contains an original leaf from the second, very much enlarged, 1587 edition of the Chronicles, a massive compendium of all human knowledge of geography and history as understood during the Renaissance. "The Chronicles are remembered not for themselves but for one of their readers - William Shakespeare. The Chronicles were an important source for thirteen of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays" (from the introduction).

Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Booth, Stephen. The Book Called Holinshed's Chronicles. An Account of Its Inception, Purpose, Contributors, Contents, Publication, Revision and Influence on William Shakespeare. The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1968.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. One of 500 copies beautifully designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley. Folio. 83pp. Text illustrations, original leaf tipped-in. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. Edges of covers slightly faded (as usual). A very fine copy. Contains an original leaf from the second, very much enlarged, 1587 edition of the Chronicles, a massive compendium of all human knowledge of geography and history as understood during the Renaissance. "The Chronicles are remembered not for themselves but for one of their readers - William Shakespeare.The Chronicles were an important source for thirteen of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays" (from the introduction).

Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Stephen Booth. The book called Holinshed's Chronicles;: An account of its inception, purpose, contributors, contents, publication, revision, and influence on William Shakespeare. Book Club of California January 1968, 1968.

Price: US$322.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1968. Light sunning to upper front and back boards, otherwise clean and crisp. Includes tipped-in leaf from the 1587 edition.

Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.