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Harrison's Description of England in Shakspere's youth. Being the second and third books of his Description of Britaine and England
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Harrison's Description of England in Shakspere's youth. Being the second and third books of his Description of Britaine and England. Ed, from the first two editions of Holinshed's Chronicle, A.D. 1577, 1587, by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Published
London, Pub. for the New Shakspere society, by N. Trübner & co., 1877-81.
Physical Description
2 v. in 1 : illus., plates (part fold., 1 col.), fold. maps (incl. front.), plans ; 20 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Zd 47: No. 1, 5 only. In pt. 1 the front. (fold. map) is bound following p. 1. With manuscript letter from J.F. Furnivall inserted.
Notes
The colored (folded) plate is Publication ser. VI, no.9 (Old London bridge, as Shakspere saw it about 1600 A.D. .. the earliest genuine full view, from a unique drawing in Pepy's collection in Magdalen college, Cambridge, traced & photo-chromo-lithograft ... 1881, by W. Griggs...).
A fourth part (The supplement, 2) planned by the society, was published 1908 in The Shakespeare library.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
pt. I. The second book, with extracts from the autograph ms. of Harrison's Chronologie, and from foreign writers on England: also with Norden's map of London, 1593, and notes on it by Henry B. Wheatley.
pt. II. The third book, with a view of the north of Cheapside in 1638 A.D., extracts from Stow, Howes, Busino, and De La Serre on London, 1598-1638; plans of Cambridge, and Canterbury, 1588 A.D.; and a map of Shakspere's routes to London; also with plans of Paris Garden, 1627, and the Bankside, Southwark, and an account of these places and the Globe and other theatres there, by W. Rendle ...
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pt. III. The supplement, 1: Four chapters of Harrison's first book, and extracts from Churchyard, 1593, 1594, and John Norden, 1608; with a chromo-photo-lithograf of the only genuine earliest full view of 'Old London bridge' as Shakspere saw it: a large view of 'The beauty of London', and Edw. VI's procession from the tower to Westminster in 1547; views of West Chepe in 1585, and the preaching at Paul's Cross in 1620; and an appendix by W. Niven, esq., on 'English houses in Shakspere's time', with 4 etchings.
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