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[FROISSART’S CHRONICLES] FROISSART, Sir John (1337–1405). Chronicles of England, France and the Adjoining Countries, From the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV. [Cardiganshire]: Hafod Press, 1803–1810. 5 vols. bound in 4. 4to. Translated by Thomas Johnes. FIRST JOHNES EDITION, one of 300 quarto sets (see Dearden p. 335). [Volume IV bound together with] Memoirs of the Life of Sir John Froissart…and complete index by Johnes (1810). 60 hand-colored engraved plates by John Harris, including 2 maps, title vignettes (occasional offsetting from plates to text). Later three-quarter red crushed levant over cloth, raised bands with gilt filets, compartments gilt, all edges gilt, STAMP SIGNED BY BAYNTON–RIVIERE BINDERY (spines lightly sunned, scant marginal spotting; otherwise square and tight). A HANDSOME SET. The Book Collector (Autumn 1973, pp. 334–335). Provenance: From the private library of a local Chicago collector, part one. “The ‘Chronicles’ of Froissart are universally considered as the most vivid and faithful picture we have of events in the fourteenth century. No more graphic account of any age has ever been produced.” (Adams).