Six Old English Chronicles, of which two are now first translated from the Monkish Latin originals. Ethelwerd’s Chronicle; Asser’s Life of Alfred; Geoffrey of Monmouth’s British History; Gildas; Nennius; Richard of Cirencester
GILES, ed., J. A.
Edited, with Illustrative Notes.
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CRISP COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN MODERN CLOTH
Published: Henry G Bohn, 1848
Stock code: 49731
Price: £184.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), both moderately foxed; strongly bound in modern green cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, marbled endpapers, a remarkably bright, fresh, crisp copy.
Published in Bohn's Antiquarian Library. ALTHOUGH THIS WORK WAS REISSUED SEVERAL TIMES IN THE SAME SERIES, THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE.