[Early Printing] [Monstrelet, Enguerrand de]. Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet

(Paris: Jean Petit and Michel le Noir, 4 December 1512). Three volumes in one. Third edition. Thick folio. (viii), cclxxii; (viii), clxxi, (1); (viii), clxxii-ccclxix ff. Each title-page illustrated with large calligraphic woodcut initial, woodcut initials throughout each volume, woodcut illustration of the author writing on verso of second and third title-pages, full-page woodcut representing the saints of France (St Denis and St Remy) opposite B1 in second and third volumes, Jean Petit's woodcut device on verso of terminal leaf in first volume, Michel le Noir's woodcut device on verso of terminal leaf in second and third volumes. Full mottled brown calf, stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label, front board detached, upper joint of rear board starting, extremities and boards rubbed and scratched, some chipping to spine; red speckled edges; contemporary manuscript on title-page of first and second volumes; bottom gutter L6 in third volume repaired, fore-edge Q6 repaired in same; small repairs to first title-page, affecting a few letters on verso; small repair in bottom corner of b7 in first volume; c6 misbound before c1 in first volume; stain on title-page of second volume, long repaired closed tear in top edge of same; scattered light soiling to text. USTC 1022

Third edition of Enguerrand de Monstrelet's important chronicles, picking up in 1400 where French historian Jean Froissart left his own chronicles. First published in French around 1470, it extends Froissart's history of the Hundred Years' War to 1444, and is notable for the authentic documents it used and the speeches it records. Preceded by two editions by Antoine Verard, in 1500 and 1508.

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[Early Printing] [Monstrelet, Enguerrand de]. Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet

[Early Printing] [Monstrelet, Enguerrand de]. Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet