The book is illustrated with woodcuts in two distinct varieties, one, representing the heads of kings, the other, spirited scenes in the history. The last are of a better character than most of those of the period, and show very clearly the influence that Holbein, who had died in London twenty-four years before, had exerted upon English book-illustration. Some of the cuts are repeated. The elaborate woodcut border in the contemporary German style was used by the printer in several other books, before and after this date. A large, well-designed initial C, with a coat-of-arms in the center, printed from a separate block ("mortised"), begins the dedication to Lord Burleigh; and a large I, with a picture of the Creation, probably designed for the first page of a Bible, begins the preface, and _The History of Scotland_. This last is the largest initial letter, Mr. Pollard says, that he has found in an English book. It had previously been used by Wolfe, in 1563. An initial letter, representing an astronomer (Ptolemy?), is prefixed to _The History of Ireland_. It is signed with a C having a small I within it. Other initials of a similar character had been used before by John Day, in Cunningham's _Cosmographical Years_, published in 1559. A royal coat-of-arms begins the Chronicle of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and in the second volume, at page 1868, is a folded woodcut of the "ſiege and wynning of Edinburg Caſtell. Anno. 1573." It is signed [C T] _Tyrell_. [TN: C T in a rectangular box.] Folio. Two volumes. Black letter and Roman. Double columns. Woodcuts. COLLATION: ¶, _six leaves; [Illustration: 5 pointed star], two leaves; A-P, in eights; Q, six leaves; r, one leaf; a-s, in eights; t, one leaf; A and (*b*), two leaves each; *a* and *b*, six leaves each; A-Z and Aa-Ii, in eights; Kk, four leaves; Ll and Mm, six leaves each; one leaf; [Illustration: small floral graphic], two leaves; A-C, in eights; D, four leaves; and A (repeated)-D, in eights; E, five leaves; F and G, eight leaves each; H, six leaves; I, two leaves_. Volume II: ¶, _two leaves; t, seven leaves; u-z, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Zzz, and Aaaa-Dddd, in eights; Eeee, nine leaves; Ffff-Yyyy, in eights; Zzzz, two leaves; A-M, in fours; N, two leaves; ( ), two leaves_. WILLIAM BALDWIN (fl. 1547), THOMAS SACKVILLE, FIRST EARL OF DORSET (1536-1608), AND OTHERS 7. ¶ A Myrrour For | Magiſtrates. | Wherein maye be ſeen by | example of other, with howe gre- | uous plages vices are puniſhed.... [Five lines, Quotation] Anno 1563. | ¶ Imprinted at London in Fleteſtrete | nere to Saynct Dunſtans Churche | by Thomas Marſhe.