Memoirs of the Life of Sir John Froissart, to Which is Added, Some Account of the Manuscript of his Chronicle in the Elizabethian Library at Breslau
[Hafod, Ceredigion, Wales]: At the Hafod Press, by James Henderson, 1807. The last book in the Froissart Chronicles, the so-called volume 5, and containing the index for the prior books, however, Memoirs was issued five years after the earlier volumes and was the last book to be issued by this early Welsh private press. Contains a hand-colored frontispiece, and as with other Hafod titles, an engraved vignette title of Johnes’s estate.
4to. [5], 221pp., [3]. Plomer, Some Private Presses of the Nineteenth Century (The Library, pgs. 407-08, 1900). Very good in contemporary dice calf, all edges marbled, bookplate of Lord Northwick, some rubbing to joints and boards, minor age toning. Item #253
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