The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet; . 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; ... and of other memorable events ... beginning at the year MCCCC., ... and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII., and continued by others to the year MDXVI. Translated by Thomas Johnes, Esq. In two volumes.
Enguerrand de Monstrelet (d.1453)
Category
Books
Date
1849
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3130622
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. . ill.. . 8vo.. Pencil price '2 vols 23/' & codes '1161' '233' 'N.J.' [or N.T.]. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper sides, endpapers & edges, spine gilt-tooled & lettered on red & black labels 'Monstrelet's chronicles'; uniformly bound with Froissart's chronicles.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Enguerrand de Monstrelet (d.1453) Thomas Johnes (1748 - 1816)