Arts / Antique & Vintage Books / Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries . Vols1 & 11. by Sir John Froissart. Sir John Froissart. Henry G. Bohn, London. 1855: Volumes 1 & 11: dark brown leather:panelled spine and embossed covers with gilt decoration of  knight on horseback to front and gilt lettering to spine . Vol 1,  767 pages: Vol 11, 733 pages: b/w woodcut illustrations throughout; coloured frontispiece to Vol 1: Memoir of the Life of Froissart, Essay on the Works of Froissart, and A Criticism on The Works of Froissart precede The Chronicles in Vol 1. Synopsis: An 1855 edition " translated from the French, with variations and editions from many celebrated manuscripts,  by Thomas Johnes  Esquire" of a vividly informative history begun at  the age of twenty, by John Froissard,  born in  Valenciennes about the year 1337:   and later  described in a manuscript taken from the archives of the chapter of St. Monegunda, at Chimay as ' a very celebrated historiographer of his time'  who  'has written the wars and Chronicles, and the most remarkable events from the year 1335 until the year of 1400; and according as he himself relates in diverse parts of his history ".  This 1885  volume, " The Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries,  from the latter part of the reign of Edward the second to the Coronation  Henry IV". records that   Froissart  stated " he had not the intention of making a dry chronicle wherein facts are simply related with their dates , and in the order they happened, but that  he was anxious to write what might be called in truth history , in which the events were presented with all the circumstances which had attended them."  Reading this work , some 600 years later,  the lasting brilliance of  his  description is surely proof of his success.  Condition: Skillful, sympathetic  restoration- not recent: original leather fronts and backs retained: renewed cloth spines covered with original leathers: end papers renewed :an original unattached  end paper included with gift inscription dated 1885:    small areas of leather missing at  ends and edges  of spine revealing the brown cloth beneath :corners bumped:  slight foxing to title and adjacent pages; contents very clean and good: overall very clean, good and collectable. used books
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Arts / Antique & Vintage Books / Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries . Vols1 & 11. by Sir John Froissart.

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  • Book Title: Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries . Vols1 & 11.
  • Author: Sir John Froissart.
  • ISBN: mw0023212321
  • Publisher: Henry G. Bohn, London
  • Year Published: 1855
  • Status: Sold - We are currently out of stock for this title

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