Annales : the true and royall history of the famous empresse Elizabeth Queene of England France and Ireland &c. True faith's defendresse of diuine renowne and happy memory. Wherein all such memorable things as happened during hir blessed raigne, with such acts and treaties as past betwixt hir Matie. and Scotland, France, Spaine, Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and the Netherlands, are exactly described.

Annales : the true and royall history of the famous empresse Elizabeth Queene of England France and Ireland &c. True faith's defendresse of diuine renowne and happy memory. Wherein all such memorable things as happened during hir blessed raigne, with such acts and treaties as past betwixt hir Matie. and Scotland, France, Spaine, Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and the Netherlands, are exactly described.

Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha. Book 1-3. English

London : Printed [by George Purslowe, Humphrey Lownes, and Miles Flesher] for Beniamin Fisher and are to be sould at the Talbott in Pater Noster Rowe, 1625.

[96], 435, [5], 232, 251-292, [2] p. : port. ; (4to)

Anonymous. By William Camden.

Translator's dedication signed: Abraham Darcie.

A translation of the French translation by Paul de Bellegent of books 1-3 of: Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha.

The title page is engraved and signed: R. Vaughan.

"Lownes app[parently]. pr[inted]. pi² (only the letterpress), a-b⁴, [chi]⁴ (dedic. to Charles, etc), 2nd (*)⁴ (contents), and [V]-[Ee]⁴; Flesher [B]-[T]⁴; Purslowe the rest. Copies display some variation in the shared dedics. on [chi]2, Gg3, and Kkk4"--STC.

Signatures: [pi]² a-b⁴ [par.]⁴ [chi]⁴ ²[par.]⁴ (*)⁴ A⁴ (a)-(c)⁴ (d)² ²(*)⁴ B-3K⁴ [B]-[2G]⁴ 4A-4E⁴ 4F².

"The historie of the most high, mighty, and euer-glorious empresse, Elizabeth ... The second [-third] booke" have separate title page; book 3 has separate pagination; register is continuous.

Running title reads: The history and annalls of Elizabeth, Queene of England, &c.

Final leaf has verses "To the reader" signed "A.D."; verso blank. Variant 1: verso has an engraved portrait of Darcie.

Variant 2: title page omits Fisher's address and names Darcie as translator; some other preliminaries printed in gold or green (?).

Entered 20 March 1624.

Port. = frontis. Signatures from DFo.

Copy 2. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 145)

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 4497
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107372

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 4497 copy 1

cs100

STC 4497 copy 2

HH44/20. Lacking port.; later port. supplied; port. of Darcie, engraved by Francis Delaram, inserted after 4F1. Provenance: Britwell Court - Harmsworth copy

STC 4497 copy 3

cs489. Later port. supplied; many leaves repaired. No poem on verso of port. 2G1 signed G. Some manuscript notes. Provenance: bookplate of Joseph Foster; bookplate (unidentified) with motto "Candide ut secure"; signature of Ja. Telfaire

STC 4497 copy 4

cs926. Cambridge-style binding. Lacking P4. Only last couplet of poem printed on verso of portrait. Margins of t.p. trimmed; some leaves torn and stained. Provenance: bookplate of E. Hastings

STC 4497 copy 5

Smedley. chi⁴ bound after ²(*)⁴. Lacking port. 2G3 is a cancel with new dedicatees. "F" in "Fenglish" of t.p. for book two corrected to "E". Some leaves torn, slightly stained. Title in manuscript on fore-edge; manuscript strips as linings. Provenance: signatures of H. Fibbs and Hen. Bertie; inscription of Heneage Fetherston; W.T. Smedley copy

STC 4497 copy 6

2G3 is a cancel with new dedicatees. Sig.T unperfected. chi3,4 bound after [par.]4. No poem on verso of port. and no "Explication" on pi2v. Provenance: bookplates of the Hirsel Library and of the Earl of Home; signature of John Boyll; Harmsworth copy