FROISSART, Jean (ca 1333-ca 1410). Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretaine, Flaunders: and other places adioynynge. Translated from French into English by John Bourchier, second Baron Berners (1467-1533). London: "Wyllyam Myddylton" [Thomas Marshe, ca 1563]; vol. II: "Richard Pinson, last day of August MDXXV" [Thomas Marshe, ca 1563]. 2 volumes, median 2 o (323 x 214 mm). Collation : [Vol. I:] A 6 B 4 (A1r title with three woodcut border-pieces and initial, A1v woodcut arms of Henry VIII, A2r translator's preface, A3r table of contents, B4v blank), a-u aa-uu aaa-nnn 6 ooo 4 (text, ooo4r colophon, verso blank); [Vol. II:] a 8 (1r title, verso blank, 2r preface, 2v table, 8v blank), A-U AA-UU AAA-NNN 6 OOO 8 (text, OOO8r colophon, verso blank). 372, 374 leaves. Unwatermarked paper. Black letter. 54 lines, double column. Woodcut initials. (Inner margin of first title repaired, affecting borders, faulty printing at foot of hhh2r, lower blank margin of H1 replaced, GGG1 inserted from the true Pynson edition, a few tiny wormholes.) Gold-tooled English red morocco, arms of W.H. Miller on sides, his monogram in compartments of spine, roll borders on turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance : William Henry Miller (binding, shelf-marks, date 21st May 1821) -- Christie Miller descendants -- unidentified bookplate -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 22 August 1972. Second complete edition (third edition of vol. I, second edition of vol. II) of Berner's celebrated English translation of Froissart's great chronicles. "Berners has adhered so closely to the English idiom as to give the book the character of an original English work" (Sidney Lee in DNB). For his reprint Marshe copied the colophon of Middleton's undated second edition (c. 1542) of volume I and the colophon of Pynson's dated original edition of volume II. This dissemblance has caused much bibliographical confusion in the 19th and 20th centuries until it was sorted out in the revised edition of STC. Sets of either edition are now rare on the market. STC 11396.7 and 11397a.
FROISSART, Jean (ca 1333-ca 1410). Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretaine, Flaunders: and other places adioynynge. Translated from French into English by John Bourchier, second Baron Berners (1467-1533). London: "Wyllyam Myddylton" [Thomas Marshe, ca 1563]; vol. II: "Richard Pinson, last day of August MDXXV" [Thomas Marshe, ca 1563]. 2 volumes, median 2 o (323 x 214 mm). Collation : [Vol. I:] A 6 B 4 (A1r title with three woodcut border-pieces and initial, A1v woodcut arms of Henry VIII, A2r translator's preface, A3r table of contents, B4v blank), a-u aa-uu aaa-nnn 6 ooo 4 (text, ooo4r colophon, verso blank); [Vol. II:] a 8 (1r title, verso blank, 2r preface, 2v table, 8v blank), A-U AA-UU AAA-NNN 6 OOO 8 (text, OOO8r colophon, verso blank). 372, 374 leaves. Unwatermarked paper. Black letter. 54 lines, double column. Woodcut initials. (Inner margin of first title repaired, affecting borders, faulty printing at foot of hhh2r, lower blank margin of H1 replaced, GGG1 inserted from the true Pynson edition, a few tiny wormholes.) Gold-tooled English red morocco, arms of W.H. Miller on sides, his monogram in compartments of spine, roll borders on turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance : William Henry Miller (binding, shelf-marks, date 21st May 1821) -- Christie Miller descendants -- unidentified bookplate -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 22 August 1972. Second complete edition (third edition of vol. I, second edition of vol. II) of Berner's celebrated English translation of Froissart's great chronicles. "Berners has adhered so closely to the English idiom as to give the book the character of an original English work" (Sidney Lee in DNB). For his reprint Marshe copied the colophon of Middleton's undated second edition (c. 1542) of volume I and the colophon of Pynson's dated original edition of volume II. This dissemblance has caused much bibliographical confusion in the 19th and 20th centuries until it was sorted out in the revised edition of STC. Sets of either edition are now rare on the market. STC 11396.7 and 11397a.
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