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Froissart (Jean) [Chronicles], 2 vol. in 1, first English edition, translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners, collation: A6 B4 a-u aa-uu aaa-nnn6 ooo4; a8 A-U AA-UU AAA-NNN6 OOO8 complete, double-column, black letter throughout, vol.1 title within woodcut border and with historiated initial, full-page woodcut coat-of-arms to verso, another full-page armorial woodcut to verso of final leaf, vol.2 title within woodcut pictorial border and the same armorial woodcuts as vol.1 repeated on verso of title and on verso of final leaf, numerous woodcut initials, A1, A2 and A5 possibly supplied from another copy, final leaf of vol.2 trimmed and laid down, repairs to margins of some leaves at beginning and end of vol.1 and occasionally elsewhere, but generally without affecting text, vol.2 3G5 with short clean tear into text block, occasional soiling and staining but overall a clean copy with good margins, some early ink annotations, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked and repaired, STC 11396 and 11397], folio (311 x 210mm.), Richard Pynson, 1523-25.

*** An excellent, complete copy of Froissart's monumental history of the Hundred Years War, rarely found complete. It was an important source book for Shakespeare's histories and this translation was commissioned by Henry VIII, whose portrait appears in the initial 'H' on the first title-page.

This book is quite rare with both volumes complete and in genuine first edition state.