HALLE, Edward. The Union of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancashire & Yorke, [London: Richard Grafton, 1550], 8 parts in one volume, 2°, title page with woodcut surround in the form of a Royal tree (some worming at beginning and end slightly affecting text, 2A2 in the account of Edward I with clean but severe tear, (?) lacking blank before the account of Henry VIII, a5 of the same account with small clean tear and hole at outer margin, dampstains at end, final index leaves cut down and mounted), 19th-century calf tooled in black (rubbed at extremities) [STC12723a. "An exceptionally difficult work to grasp because of perplexities in the order of its printing, in the intention of its publisher, and in the imperfect and/or sophisticated state of many surviving copies" and therefore SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN] -- William WARNER. Albion's England, the third time corrected and augmented, London: Thomas Orwin, 1592, small 4°, woodcut title device, woodcut ornaments and initials, including a large historiated initial of Elisabeth I (lower margins cropped with some loss of catch-words), late 18th-century calf (joints rubbed). [STC 25081] (2)