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Shakespeare: I lov'd my books

Books in Shakespeare's Heart, exhibition button

Bishops' Bible

Matthew Parker, trans. (1569). The Holi Bible. Imprinted at London: in powles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, 1569.

Geneva Bible

William Whittingham,et. al., trans. (1600). The Bible: Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, and Conferred with the Best Translations in Diuers Languages. With Most Profitable Annotations Vpon All the Hard Places, and Other Things of Great…

Geneva Bible

William Whittingham,et. al., trans. (1595). The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Olde and Newe Testament. Imprinted at London: by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie.

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Holinshed's Chronicles 1587

Raphael Holinshed (1587). 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. With contributions by William…

Hall's Chronicle

Edward Hall (1548). The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke, Beeyng Long in Continual Discension for the Croune of This Noble Realme,…. With contributions by Richard Grafton. Londini: In officina Richardi Graftoni…

Holinshed's Chronicles 1577

Raphael Holinshed (1577). The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande.... At London: Imprinted [by Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison.

Provenance: Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf Rare Book fund. Earlier ownership…

Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser (1609). The Faerie Queene: disposed into XII bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues. At London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes.

Provenance: Presented by Mr. C.L. Burton, Toronto, 1960. Initials “TER” for “T.E. Ross” (i.e. T.E.…