HOLINSHED, Raphael (d. 1580?). [The first and second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1. The description and historie of England, 2. The description and historie of Ireland, 3. The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others; now newlie augmented and continued ... to the yeare 1586], London: printed [by John Denham, 1587]. 3 parts in 2 volumes, 2° (359 x 230mm). Each part with separate woodcut title, plus 3 sectional woodcut titles in part II, double columns, historiated initials, headpieces, with 3 blanks. (Lacking title, one preliminary leaf after dedication and O2 in pt. I, also lacking first and final blank, inner gutter waterstained, a few short tears at beginning of vol. I, lower corner of 5S3 in pt. III torn away with loss of a few words of text of ca. 10 lines, light soiling or spotting in vol. II.) Old calf, ruled in blind (covers of vol. I scuffed, head of spine of vol. II torn, extremities rubbed).