Histoire et chronique memorable de Messire Iehan Froissart. . Reueu et corrigé sus diuers exemplaires, & suyant les bons auteurs, par Denis Sauuage de Fontenailles en Brie, historographe du trescrestien Roy Henry IIe de ce nom.
Jean Froissart (1338-1410)
Category
Books
Date
1559
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3064823
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v. . fol.. Four vols. bound as two. With booksellers' signs including: Đ1.16-; 4 vols. in 2; Đ3.3- in vol. I. MS. annotations throughout in more than one hand. One annotation dated Feb 2 1831. A2 (Vol. I) damaged with loss of text.. Provenance: Multiple signs of ownership: sixteenth century inscription on flyleaf of vol. I: 'Giesu ...'; another early inscription on title page of both vols (Johannes ?); armorial bookplate, lettered: Ralph Freman of Hammells in Com. Hertford Esq.; bookplate, lettered: SiBi (?); Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate, lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan.. Binding: Nineteenth century diced leather; gilt fillets and blind tooling to form border; rebacked; lettered direct in gilt onto spine.
Makers and roles
Jean Froissart (1338-1410) Denis Sauvage, Sieur du Parc (1520-1587)