THE PEACEABLE AND PROSPEROUS REGIMENT OF BLESSED QUEENE ELISABETH. A Facsimile from Holinshed's Chronicles (1587).
Edited, with an introduction, by Cyndia Susan Clegg. Textual commentary by Randall McLeod. Pp. viii+570, frontispiece; impl. 4to; grey cloth, lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 2005. First edition. *The Elizabethan portion of the 1857 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles, reproducing all of its known originals and cancels derived from nine copies. 'The Elizabethan section is perhaps best known for the Pricy Council censorship to which it was subject upon the publication of Chronicles in 1857. The "Historical Introduction" by the editor, Cyndia Susan Clegg, analyses the evidence of sections 1 through 10 in the facsimile, showing that the censorship occurred in three stages. The last three sections show resettings undertaken for no apparent reason' [Foreword]. Item #184085
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