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Annales, or, The history of the most renowned and victorious Princesse Elizabeth, late Queen of England : contayning all the important and remarkable passages of state, both at home and abroad, during her long and prosperous reigne / written in Latin by the learned Mr. William Camden ; translated into English by R.N. Gent ; together with divers additions of the authors never before published.

Author/creator Camden, William, 1551-1623
Format Electronic and Book
Edition3rd ed.
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for B. Fisher, 1635.
Description[35], 236, 239-586 p., [2] leaves of plates : port. ; 29 cm.
Supplemental Content Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Subject(s)
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--Early works to 1800.
Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584--Early works to 1800.
Great Britain--History --Elizabeth, 1558-1603 --Early works to 1800.
Other author/creatorNorton, Robert, d. 1635.
Other author/creatorDelaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627.
Other author/creatorHilliard, Nicholas, 1547?-1619.
Other author/creatorVaughan, Robert, 17th cent.
Uniform titleAnnales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha. English
Variant title Historie of the most renowned and victorious Princesse Elizabeth late Queen of England
Portion of title History of the most renowned and victorious Princesse Elizabeth
Series Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteScanned copy imperfect and defective: frontispiece portrait wanting; hole in p. 373-374; top corner of p. 529-530 torn; warped, creased.
Local noteBiography.
Local note2012AH12200.
Local noteScanned copy imperfect and defective: frontispiece portrait wanting; hole in p. 373-374; top corner of p. 529-530 torn; warped, creased.
Local noteBiography.
Local note2012AH12200.
General noteP. 237-238 omitted in paging.
General noteFrontispiece portrait engr. by Francis Delaram after Nicholas Hilliard; cf. A.M. Hind, Engraving in England (James I) (1955) p. 219. This is Hind's state IV.
General noteAdded illustrated t.p. (with title beginning "Annales") was originally engr. by R. Vaughan for A. Darcie's translation (1625); in this state, the subtitle & imprint have been erased & reengraved (imprint varies from letterpress t.-p.).
General noteAnother edition, also called "The third edition", has deceptive imprint: London, Printed by Thomas Harper [i.e. E. Flesher], for Benjamin Fisher [i.e. C. Harper & J. Amery], and are to be sold at his shop in Aldersgate-street, at the signe of the Talbot. Part of the impression to be vented for the benefit of the children of John Minshew deceased [1675].
General noteThe "divers additions" in this edition include a panegyric on the translator's father, Thomas Norton, on p. 254, not by Camden & not reprinted in later editions.
General noteAlso published with titles: The historie of the life and reigne of the most renowmed and victorious princesse Elizabeth [&] The history of the most renowned and victorious princess Elizabeth.
General noteEnglish translation from the Latin language of "Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha."
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 10158.

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