6. Holinshed's Chronicle
Tudor & Stewart World in 100 Objects
Once completed, the work was printed in 1577 by Henry Bynneham (c. 1542 – 1583) and illustrated with copious woodcuts.
The vast work was immediately popular – used by Lord Burghley and Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser as a reference work.
As Holinshed was by then dead, the overall management of the second edition was undertaken by Anthony Fleming. The printer, too, changed, Bynneham having gone bankrupt, to Henry Denham and Ralph Newbury (c. 1536 – c. 1604).
If you’d like to know more about this fascinating source, see http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/index.shtml
