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Fabian's Chronicles (1559)
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Author:
Title: Fabian's Chronicles
Publication Information: London: Kyngston, 1559
Call #: 942 F 117c
Book Size: 25.6 cm (H); 18.5 cm (L); 6.2 cm (spine)
Cover: leather covers; gold embossed edges with floral design (front and back); the spine has a floral design with the title on black
Inside Book Covers:
Paper Edges: marbled
Illustrations:
Comments: gothic print
-- “The Printer to the Reader”
-- “The Table for the First Parte”

Pedagogical Uses/Notes:

British Renaissance Text Production
Renaissance History
Gothic type before transition to Roman type

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