The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, . a gentleman formerly resident at Cambray in Cambresis; containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of 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 ... beginning at the year MCCCC. where that of John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII. and continued by others to the year MDXVI. Translated by Thomas Johnes, Esq.
Enguerrand de Monstrelet (d.1453)
Category
Books
Date
1809
Materials
Place of origin
Wales
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3022337
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v., plates : ill. ; 4to. Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate: "William Gibbs.", with motto "En Dios Mi Amparo y Esperanza." [i.e. William Gibbs (1790-1875)]. Binding: nineteenth-century full diced calf; gilt and blind roll, double gilt fillet border; gilt tooled spine, board edges and turn-ins; marbled edges and endpapers; gilt lettered spine: Monstrelet's Chronicles.
Makers and roles
Enguerrand de Monstrelet (d.1453) Thomas Johnes (1748 - 1816)