The Chronicles of Engeurrand de Monstrelet
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Author: Monstrelet, Enguerrand de
Title: The Chronicles of Engeurrand de Monstrelet
Place Published: [London]
Publisher:Hafod Press
Date Published: 1809
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5 volumes. Translated by Thomas Johnes. Vignette title pages; 51 engraved plates in Volume V. 29x22 cm (15½x9¾"), later gilt-decorated calf, gilt-decorated spines with raised bands, marbled endpapers. First Edition of this translation.
Title continues: "Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the Houses of Orleans and Burgundy; or, the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, – their expulsion thence,- – and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France as well as in other countries. A history of fair example and of great profit to the French, beginning at the year MCCCC where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII, and continued by others to the year MDXVI." With the illustrated bookplate of Thomas Renaud Rutter.
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