Published by London Cresset Press
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Language: English
Published by William Stansby, London, 1623
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Folio. Pp. [6], xvi, 218. Title in red and black ,woodcut headpieces and initials, and large woodcut textual medallion. Bound in modern quarter calf over marbled boards, new endpapers. Faint marginal dampstain to opening leaves, light even browning throughout text, signature of William Beattie (1795-1875), noted physician and travel writer, on title. Overall, a very clean, attractive copy. Edited by John Selden from a manuscript in the Cotton Library, this is the First Edition of Eadmer's most important work, the "Historiae Novorum", a chronicle of contemporary events from the time of the Conquest in 1066 to the early 12 th century. STC 7438.2; Sarton II, 275.