Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France and the adjoining countries : from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV / newly translated from the French editions, with variations and additions from many celebrated manuscripts by Thomas Johnes.

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The memoirs are translated from the French of Jean Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaya, and the account of the manuscript at Breslau, from the German of Johann Ephraim Scheibel.
"The engravings are traced from the finest illuminations in our own libraries and in that of France."--Advertisement, v. 1.
Vol. 1: iv, xxiv, 834 p., [16] leaves of plates; v. 2: xxvi, 744 p., [19] leaves of plates; v. 3: xx, 656 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 4: xx, 692 p., [22] leaves of plates; v. 5: 221 p., [1] leaf of plates.
Library's copy is one of 25 printed on large paper, with the engraved maps and aquatint illustrations present in both colored and uncolored states.