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Johnes (Thomas). The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, a gentleman formerly resident at Cambray in Cambresis; containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France as well as in other countries. A history of fair example and of great profit to the French, beginning at the year MCCCC where that of Sir John Froissart finishes and ending at the year MCCCLXVII and continued by others to the year MDXVI, translated by Thomas Johnes, 5 volumes, Hafod: At the Hafod Press, by James Henderson, 1809, copper engraved vignette to each title by Britton and Angus 51 line engraved plates bound in the final volume, including one double-page engraving, together with Grafton (Richard). Grafton's Chronicle; or, History of England. Too which is added his table of the bailiffs, sheriffs, and mayors, of the City of London. From the year 1189 to 1558, inclusive, 2 volumes, London: printed for J. Johnson; F. C. and J. Rivington; T Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orm; Cadell and Davies; and J. Mawman, 1809, plus Froissart (Sir John). Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; translated from the original French, at the Command of King Henry Eighth, by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. Reprinted from Pynson's edition of 1523, and 1525; with the names of places and persons carefully corrected. To which are added, a memoir of the translator, and a copious index to the work, 2 volumes, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington; T Payne; Wilkie and Robinson; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orm, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Murray: R H Evans; J. Mawman; and R. Baldwin, 1812, and five other similar reprints fo early chronicles: Hall's Chronicle; containing the history of England, during the reign of Henry Fourth, and the succeeding monarchs, to the end of the reign of Henry Eighth...carefully collated the editions of 1548 and 1550, London: printed for J. Johnson... 1809, The Customs of London, otherwise called Arnold's Chronicle; containing, among divers others matters, the original of the celebrated poem of The Nut-Brown maid, reprinted from the first edition, with the additions included in second, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811, The Pastime of People, or the chronicles of divers realms; and most especially of the realm of England. Briefly compiled, and imprinted in Cheapside, by John Rastell, [A. D. 1529], now first reprinted, and systematically arranged, with facsimile wood-cuts of the portraits of Popes, Emperors, & c., and the Kings of England, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1811, The New Chronicles of England and France, in two parts; by Robert Fabyan. Named by himself the Concordance of Histories. Reprinted from Pyson's edition of 1516, the first part collated with the editions of 1533, 1542, and 1559; and the second with a manuscript of the author's own time, as well as the subsequent editions: including the different continuations, to which are added biographical and literary preface, and an index, by Henry Ellis, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1811, and The Chronicle of John Hardyng containing an account for public transactions for the earliest period of English history to the beginning of the reign of King Edward Fourth. Together with the continuation by Richard Grafton, to the thirty-fourth year of King Henry Eighth, the former part collated with two manuscripts of the author's own time; the last with Grafton's duplicate edition, to which are added a biographical and literary preface, and an index by Henry Ellis, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1812, wide margins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, fine contemporary near-uniform full polished speckled calf gilt, inside dentels gilt, covers with floral