Chronicles & Ancient Histories by John De Wavrin to AD 688 medieval history

A Collection of the Chronicles & Ancient Histories of Great Britian, now called England

From Albina to AD 688by John de Wavrin

translated by William Hardy

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

Hardback

lxxiii, 477 pages; English text

Jean de Waurin or Wavrin (c. 1400 – c. 1474) was a medieval French chronicler and compiler, also a soldier and politician. He belonged to a noble family of Artois, and witnessed the Battle of Agincourt from the French side, but later fought on the Anglo-Burgundian side in the later stages of the Hundred Years' War. As a historian, he put together the first chronicle intended as a complete history of England, very extensive but largely undigested and uncritical.

Very Good condition; bookplate to endpaper; some wear to binding; many pages unopened.