The cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlaude (sic), Bretayne, Flaunders, and other places adioynynge / translated out of frenche into our materall Englysshe tonge, by Johan Bouchier knyght, lorde Berners ...

Accession number: 
PML 5004-05
Author: 
Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?
Published: 
Imprynted at London : in Fletestrete at the sygne of the George [Richard Redman, ca. 1535] by Wyllyam Myddylton, 1525-[1542?]
Description: 
2 v. ; 35 cm
Credit: 
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes: 

Middleton's name and address from colophon. Publication date conjecured by STC. Some sheets printed by Redman ca. 1535, possibly to make up a lack in first ed. stock (STC).
Readings from vol. 1: b1recto, col. 2, line 3 from bottom ends: "kyng in his be" (no hyphen); b2recto, col. 1, line 1 has: "lytell hakeneys," (with comma).
Readings from vol. 2: A1recto, col. 2, last line has: "baylye".
Vol. 1 Comprising the first and second books. Imprint as above.
Vol. 2 First Pynson ed. of the third and fourth books. Colophon reads: "Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Rycharde Pynson/ printer to the kynges moost noble grace. And ended the last day of August: the yere of our lorde god. M. D. xxv. Cum priuylegio a rege in dulto"

Binding: 
Brown morocco half-binding, in 2 volumes, by M. Duprez-Lahey.
Variant Title: 

Here begynneth the fyrst volum of Syr Johan Froyssart: ...

Provenance: 
From the collections of Colonel Thomas Stanley, sale 1813; Sykes sale, 1824 (armorial bookplate and cipher of Sir M.M. Sykes from binding on inner front cover); Henry Perkins sale 1873; Theodore Irwin; and Pierpont Morgan.
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