FROISSARTS CRONYCLES.
Translated out of the French by Sir John Bourchier Lord Berners. In eight volumes, totalling nearly 3,000 pages, each volume with hand coloured title and text decorations, including numerous small coats of arms in the margins (a few black & white), 6 hand-coloured maps, the text occasionally printed in red & black, indices last volume; med. 8vo; linen backed blue/grey papered boards, printed paper title labels on spines (and spare labels tipped-in at end), the boards sometimes slightly soiled, edges lightly worn, spines slightly discoloured and with a couple of small surface chips at extremities, some of the labels lightly chipped; uncut and partly unopened; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns; printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the press by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927-8. Edition limited to 350 sets (320 for sale) on Batchelor handmade paper. Ransom 52. *Loosely inserted are two copies of an advertisement sheets from the press, and a sheet dated July 1927 giving production details for this set. The Shakespeare Head Press was established by Arthur Henry Bullen at Stratford-on-Avon in 1904. After Bullen's death in 1920, the Press was purchased by a group which included the Oxford bookseller Basil Blackwell. Bernard Henry Newdigate was in charge of printing and production. Jean Froissart (c. 1333 - c. 1410) was a leading historian of the late Middle Ages. His famous chronicles cover the history of Western Europe from around 1325 to 1400, and are the key primary source for the first part of the Hundred Years War. Item #171071
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