Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late Queene of England. Contayning all the Important and Remarkeable Passages of State both at Home and Abroad, during her Long and Prosperous raigne.

Bound in full calf, probably later 20^th Century, with new endpapers. The boards and spine with some scratches but generally in very good condition with no problems with the hinges. The book easily read.

Internally quite clean with the odd stain and foxing from time to time. Last index leaf with small piece torn off corner.

Per Wikipedia: Annales

In 1597, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley suggested that Camden write a history of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. The degree of Burghley’s subsequent influence on the work is unclear: Camden only specifically mentions John Fortescue of Salden, Elizabeth’s last Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Henry Cuffe, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex’s secretary, as sources. Camden began his work in 1607. The first part (books 1–3) of the Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha, ad annum salutis M.D. LXXXIX, covering the reign up to 1588, appeared in 1615. The second part (book 4, covering 1589–1603) was completed in 1617, but was not published until 1625 (Leiden edition), and 1627 (London edition), following Camden’s death. The first translation into English of books 1–3 appeared in 1625, done by Abraham Darcie or Darcy (active 1625). Book 4 was translated into English by Thomas Browne, canon of Windsor, in 1629. The first complete English edition appeared in 1630.

The Annales were not written in a continuous narrative, but in the style of earlier annals, giving the events of each year in a separate entry. Sometimes criticized as being too favourably disposed towards Elizabeth and James I, the Annales are one of the great works of English historiography and had a great impact on the later image of the Elizabethan age. Hugh Trevor-Roper said about them: “It is thanks to Camden that we ascribe to Queen Elizabeth a consistent policy of via media rather than an inconsequent series of unresolved conflicts and paralysed indecisions.”