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FROISSART, JEAN. Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, and the Adjoining Countries . . . Newly Translated . . . by Thomas Johnes. 57 (of 58?) hand-colored aquatint plates; 2 folding hand-colored engraved maps. 4 volumes. 4to, 308x244 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 red straight-grain morocco gilt, some wear to extremities; occasional heavy foxing on text leaves and offsetting from engraved matter onto adjacent leaves, plates generally clean. [Hafod]: Hafod Press, 1803-05
first johnes edition, limited to 300 hundred sets, and the first dated production of the Hafod Press established by Johnes on his estate in Cardiganshire, Wales. This was the first English translation of Froissart after the 1523-25 version by Lord Berners. A supplement (Memoirs of the Life of . . . Froissart) was published in 1810. Cave, The Private Press, page 43-44.
