The Chronicle of England...edited by the Rev. Francis Charles Hingeston...published by the the Authority of the Lords Coimmisioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the Direction of the Master of Rolls.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858.
Price: $250.00
About the item
First edition. Folding color facsimile as frontispiece. [4], xxix-[xxxii, 482 pp. 1 vols. Royal 8vo. Publisher's quarter brown morocco and boards. Very good copy.
Item #30337
This is the first publication of Capgrave's Chronicle. He lived from 1393 to 1464, was the prior of Lynn in Norfolk, a Cambridge graduate and prolific author. This chronicle is especially interesting from the accession of Henry III in 1216 to its conclusion in 1417.
