Sixteen volumes of the 'Rolls Series', the major collection of British and Irish historical documents and sources, detailing medieval England is great detail.

Rare to find in this condition and these are private copies without the library markings usually seen.

‘Fr. Rogeri Bacon, Opera Quaedam Hactenus Inedita’, published in 1859, edited by J. S. Brewer. This volumes contains ‘Opus Tertium’, ‘Opus Minus’, and ‘Compendium Philosophiae’. The title page states that this is Volume I, though it doesn’t appear that a second volume was published.

‘Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Quondam Lincolniensis Epistolae’, published 1861, edited by Henry Richards Luard. Bound without frontispiece.

‘Narratives of the Expulsion of the English From Normandy, M.CCCC.XLIX. - M.CCCC.L. Robertus Blondelli de Reductione Normannlae, le Recouvrement de Normendie, par Berry, Herault du Roy. Conferences Between the Ambassadors of France and England’, published in 1863, edited by Joseph Stevenson.

‘A Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories of Great Britain, Now Called England’, published in 1864, by John de Wavrin, translated by William Hardy. This volume looks from Albina to A.D. 688. Incomplete in one volume, being Volume I of a total of III volumes.

‘Magna Vita S. Hugonis Episcopi Lincolniensis’, published 1864, edited by James F. Dimock. Printed from manuscripts in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the Imperial Library in Paris.

‘Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the First’, published in 1864 and 1879, edited and translated by Alfred J. Horwood. In two volumes. Volume I looks at the years XXXII to XXXIII, Volume II looks at the years XXXIV to XXXV. Thirty-four pages of publisher’s adverts to the rear.

‘Le Livere de Reis de Brittanie e le Livere de Reis de Engletere’, published 1865, edited by John Glover.

‘Willelmi Rishanger, Quondam Monachi S. Albani, et Quorundam Anonymorum, Chronica et Annales, Regnantibus Henrico Tertio et Edward Primo’, published in 1865, edited by Henry Thomas Riley. This volume looks at A.D. 1259-1307.

‘Le Livere de Reis de Brittanie e le Livere de Reis de Engletere’, published 1865, edited by John Glover.

‘Johannis de Trokelowe, et Henrici de Blaneforde, Monachorum S. Albani, Necnon Quorundam Anonymprum, Chronica et Annales, Regnatibus Henrico Tertio, Edwardo Primo, Edward Secundo, Ricardo Secundo, et Henrico Quarto’, published in 1866, edited by Henry Thomas Riley. This volume looks at A.D. 1259-1296, 1307-1324, and 1392-1406. Illustrated with one folding table. Bound without frontispiece.

‘Liber Monasterii de Hyda; Comprising a Chronicle of the Affairs of England, From the Settlement of the Saxons to the Reign of King Cnut; and a Chartulary of the Abbey of Hyde, in Hampshire’, published in 1866, edited by Edward Edwards. Looking at A.D. 455-1023.

‘The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft, in French Verse, From the Earliest Period to the Death of King Edward I’, published in 1866, edited by Thomas Wright. Volume I of II only.

‘Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, a Thoma Walsingham, Regnante Ricardo Secundo, Ejusdem Ecclesiae Praecentore, Compilata’, published in 1867, edited by Henry Thomas Riley. Incomplete in two volumes, being Volumes I and II of a total of III volumes. Volume I contains A.D. 793-1290, and Volume II contains A.D. 1290-1349.

‘Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene’, published in 1868 and 1869, edited by William Stubbs. In two volumes. Incomplete as two volumes, being Volumes I and II of a total of IV volumes.

‘The History of the English’, published in 1879, by Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon, edited by Thomas Arnold. Looking at A.C. 55 to A.D. 1154. Thirty-four pages of publisher’s adverts to the rear.