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TRANSLATED BY THOMAS JOHNES. 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 . BEGINNING AT THE YEAR MCCCC WHERE THAT OF SIR JOHN FROISSART FINISHES AND ENDING AT THE YEAR MCCCCLXV11 AND CONTINUED BY OTHERS TO THE YEAR MDXVI. 12 VOLUMES (OF 13) VOLUME13 THE PLATES BEING ABSENT. A FINE SET REBOUND IN BURGUNDY CLOTH WITH GILT LETTERING TO THE SPINES. TIGHT AND VERY CLEAN. CONTAINS THE BOOKPLATE OF PHILIP LYTTLETON GELL OF HOPTON HALL IN DERBYSHIRE. THE GELL FAMILY ARE RECORDED AS HOLDING AN ESTATE AT HOPTON SINCE AT LEAST 1327. P.L. GELL LIVED THERE FROM 1904. POSTAGE WILL BE EXTRA.