Author: FROISSART, Sir John
Title: The Chronicles of England, France, Spain and Other Places Adjoining
Description: New York, Limited Editions Club, 1959. Hardcover. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 11") bound in buckram with the side-strips bearing an all-over pattern of escutcheons, the center strip stamped in gold with a large escutcheon quartered in red and blue containing the title, and flanked by groups of lances; 748 pages. Translation of Lord Berners edited by G. C. Macaulay with an introduction by Dr. Sidney Painter of this account of the first half of The Hundred Years War. Two-page spread illustrations by Henry C. Pitz hand-colored through stencils at the Walter Fischer Studio. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Handsome edition of this classic. Ill.: Henry C. Pitz. Spine a little sunned. Close to Fine in a Fine slipcase .

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