Word: holingshead
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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First edition copies of some of the rarest books in the priceless Widener collection are on exhibition this week in the Memorial Room at the Library. These include the early English chronicles of the New World across the sea written by Holingshead, Hardyng, and Purchas, all printed before the first half of the seventeenth century; and also a copy of Chapman's first translation of Homer, inscribed by the author...
...Holingshead volumes, of which there are two in the cases, are dated 1571 and 1577. They are filled with quaint woodcuts depicting chiefly battle seenes in which the earliest cannon figure. Printed in old English black letter, they are replete with marginal sub-titles, and bear on the title-page a solicitous "God save the Queene...
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