A Chronicle of England. B.C. 55 – A.D. 1485.

DOYLE, James E.

$600.00

Item Number: 139284

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.

First edition of Doyle’s elaborately illustrated history of ancient and medieval England. Quarto, bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with engravings by the author printed in colors by Edmund Evans. In very good condition.

English historian, antiquarian and illustrator James William Edmund Doyle's Chronicle of England received considerable praise upon publication in 1864 from the prince consort, among many others, and was well received by the public.