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Fabyan (Robert) [The Chronicle]

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double column, black letter, crible initials, title in type and manuscript facsimile and inlaid to size, blank margins of f6, C1 , D5, bb2 repaired, hole in lower blank margin of Rrr6 repaired, final gathering [Sss1-6] with extensive marginal repairs, late19th-century half roan over early 19th-century marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, rubbed, covers scuffed, [STC 10662], folio, [printed by John Reynes, 1542].

***A later edition of a work first published by Richard Pynson in 1516. Fabyan's Chronicle has "permanent literary interest as the chief medium through which the Chronicles of London were quoted by later writers during more than three centuries" Kingsford, English Historical Literature, p. 106). Robert Fabyan (d. 1513) "was the first of the citizen chroniclers of London who conceived the design of expanding his diary into a general history ... The first six books are brief, and reach to the Norman Conquest; the seventh book extends from the Norman Conquest to his own day. Fabyan was well acquainted with Latin and French, and shows a large knowledge of previous writers ... [he is] ... valuable as an authority as he reaches his own time. From the accession of Richard I his book assumes the form of a London chronicle, and the years are divided by the names of the mayors and sheriffs. He has an eye for city pageantry, and gives details of many public festivities. Occasionally he breaks into verse ..." DNB..

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