The chronicle of England
1858, First Edition. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. Poor copy in contemporary quarter gilt-blocked brown leather over black paper boards. Text block loose in its covers, with interior stitching and cloth joints holding secure; boards heavily worn to the surfaces and edges with layers separating. Folded frontispiece sound, with minor creasing to the edges. Leaves remain strong and clean on the whole; scattered smudges, faint foxing, or pencil annotations to the margins. A serviceable example. Provenance: bookplate of R. Bonham Christie. Item #471179
Series; Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores ; 1 (Rolls series). Physical description; xxix, 482 pages : colour folded frontispiece ; 26 cm. Notes; Edited by Francis Charles Hingeston. Published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the Master of the Rolls. Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in Middle English, introduction and index in modern English, with extract in Latin. Subjects; World history – Early works to 1800. Plantagenets, 1154-1399. Medieval period, 1066-1485. Sources. Chronology. Bibliography. Great Britain. England. Ireland. History.
Price: €35.00