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HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL.The Historie of Scotlande.

HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL. The Historie of Scotlande, conteyning the beginning, increase, proceedings, continuance, Actes and Gouernemente of the Scottish nation, from the originall therof unto the yeare 1571. Gathered and written in the English tongue by R.H. At London, Imprinted for Lucas Harrison, 1577. Small folio. (viii), 22, 1 blank, 518, (26) pp. (Lacking erratea leaf). Bound in a late nineteenth century blindstamped binding, restored & rebacked, new endpapers. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts. Scottish part only. A full page woodcut map of Edinburgh is present in some complete sets but is not present in this copy. A good copy of the Scottish part of the first edition of Holinshed's Chronicles, published in 1577 and illustrated with hundreds of woodcuts. A second edition was published in 1587 but that was not illustrated. This first edition was commonly known as the "Shakespeare edition" until W.G. Boswell-Stone and H.R.D. Anders established that it was, in fact, the second edition which Shakespeare employed as the source for ten of his plays. The Chronicles for each of the countries are divided into two sections: "Description" and "History." The work originated with Reginald Wolfe who devoted 25 years to the compilation of the English, Scottish and Irish portions, leaving it unfinished at his death in 1573. Holinshed, who had assisted Wolfe for a number of years, then took over the project. He narrowed his scope to the British Isles and abandoned the plan to publish maps, by then rendered unnecessary by the preparation of Saxton's atlas. Although the Chronicles bear the name of Raphael Holinshed, they were in fact a corporate achievement, produced by men of varying origins and upbringings. Eight men were principally involved in the huge enterprise of writing them, in collaboration with a number of printers and publishers. Holinshed himself wrote the "Historie of England." The "Description of England" is by William Harrison, rector of Radwinter and canon of Windsor. "The History and Description of Scotlande" and the "History of Irelande" are by Richard Staynehurst and Edward Campion. According to Luborksy and Ingram, "the Histories, where all the woodcuts appear, represent (together with the herbals and emblem books) the most copiously illustrated secular texts of the Tudor era . both the narrative and descriptive cuts are printed to relate to the pertinent texts; the images of the rulers function as initials do, to signal a new topic and also, for those of the Tudor rulers in volume Two, as portraits." While some of the cuts are reuses, "most of the narrative and descriptive cuts are new and many artisans were engaged in their making." Henry Bynneman, Reginald Wolfe's apprentice and successor, printed the work. Copies bear various imprints with the names of Hunne, John Harrison, Lucas Harrison or George Bishop, who were enlisted "to defray the charges for the impression." [c.f. Bartlett 222; Grolier English 6; Luborsky and Ingram English Illustrated Books 1536-1603 I, pp. 452-68; Pforzheimer 494; STC 13568b].