Search Results: Middle Ages from Charles Agvent

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1871 - 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Occasional spot of foxing but generally clean and bright; minor scratches and wear to bindings, spine labels rather dry. Near Fine set of these beautifully illustrated and bound books. Eight quarto (7-1/2" x 11") volumes bound in full green morocco leather by Bickers & Son with triple gilt-ruled covers with gilt fleur-de-lys corner decorations, gilt-decorated spines with contrasting morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 131 full-page chromolithograph plates as well as numerous full-page black-and-white plates and text engravings illustrating all facets of life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Text in French. Each volume with the bookplate of Lovis Childs Madeira, designed by Walter M. Aikman, on the front pastedown.

[London]: [Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme; And J. White], [1808]. Third Edition. Hardcover. Occasional light soiling. Very Good. Quarto (7-1/4" x 11") bound in contemporary marbled boards with later calf leather spine and corners. The atlas volume only of the multi-volume set complete with 57 lithographs and a map. Froissart's CHRONICLES (or CHRONIQUES) was written in French by Jean Froissart, chronicling the years 1322 until 1400, and describing the conditions that created the Hundred Years' War, as well as the first fifty years of the war. For centuries it has been recognized as the chief expression of the chivalric revival of 14th century England and France.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Mild sunning to the spines. Fine in Very Good dustwrappers and a lightly soiled, Very Good slipcase. Lynd Ward. Two octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/4") volumes bound in full brown duck cloth printed in brown and orange from a design by Lynd Ward. Introduction by Hendrik Willem van Loon. Wash drawings by Lynd Ward reproduced in photogravure. Copy #710 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. In the uncommon dustwrappers, one of which is chipped along the bottom edge. Monthly Letter laid in.