John Bourchier Lord Berners Translator (4 results)
Published by Macmillan, London, 1924
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Seller: WEST WESSEX BOOKS, Taunton, SOMER, United KingdomWEST WESSEX BOOKS
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 484pp with glossary.Edited and reduced into one volume by G.C.Macaulay. Globe Edition, first published in 1895. Spotty colour loss to covers, gilt bands and title to spine, some v.light foxing to endpapers and page edges, otherwise clean and firm. Surface rate postage included in price…. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
More imagesThe Chronicle of Froissart. Translated out of French by Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners, Annis 1523-25 ; with an Introduction by William Paton Ker. in 6 Volumes
Berners, Sir John Bourchier Lord (translator) ; Froissart, Jean ; William Paton Ker.
Published by David Nutt, 1901-3, The Tudor Translations series,, 1901
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Add to baskethardback, 8vo, complete in 6 volumes, pp: lxxxiiv,413;xviii,508;xvi,495;483;xvi,462;xii,469; page edges browning, otherwise clena and tight throughout, no inscriptions, many page edges uncut, rebound with new endpapers in marbled boards and quarter-leather, gilt titles, some discoloured patches on the spines, otherwise Very Good… condition.
More imagesPublished by F. C. and J. Rivington, London, 1812
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Seller: Chancery Hill Books, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.Chancery Hill Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two large volumes. THe 1812 Reprint of Pynson's 16th-century edition of Froissart: the text as it would have been known during most of the 1500s and 1600s. Still useful as a scholarly resource, but also a fine set for a collectors library. The two volumes are bound in attractive half-leather with… marbled paper by Bayntun of Bath. Some internal foxing, old bookplates, and some minor inventory or booksellers pencil numnbers, but overall an appealing set, in suitably attractive bindings. Large and heavy books may demand extra shipping charges.
More imagesPublished by White, Cochrane, and Co, London, 1814
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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto (9 3/16 x 7 3/8 inches; 233 x 188 mm.). [xii], [i-iii], iv-xxvii, [1, blank], iv, 544 pp. Twenty-five hand-colored plates engraved by Charles Heath, one woodcut. Title-page printed in black and red. Edited by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856) and reprinted from the edition published b…y Robert Redborne c. 1555. With a reproduction of original title-page: "Arthur of Brytayn [on scroll]. The hystory of the moost noble and valyaunt knyght of lytell brytayne . [woodcut]." Contemporary full ochre straight-grained morocco with fillets in blind and gilt, small corner-pieces featuring gilt ornaments. Spine with five shallow double bands, richly decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, brown liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. Minimal rubbing to corners and extremitiesstill a wonderful copy of a very scarce book. John Bourchier, Lord Berners (1467-1553) "is best known for his English translations of various European worlds of history and literature, especially the fourteenth century Chronicles of Jean Froissart. Because of their literary merit many of Berner's translations influenced the work of later Elizabethan writers and chroniclers" (Enclyclopedia of Tudor England). For example, Bourchier's Arthur of Lytell Brytayne is said to have inspired Spenser. Arthur of Lytell Brytayne is Bourchier's translation of Artus de la Petite Bretagne, a fourteenth-century prose chivalric romance which was first printed in Lyons in 1493; Bourchier appears to have used the second version of 1496. Scholars trace the origins of the Arthur cycle legends to Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th century Historia Regum Britanniae; the legend spread through Europe, particularly in France and Germany. Delightful illustrations by Charles Heath accompany this edition of Bourchier's translation. "Landscape and figure engraver Charles Heath (1785-1848) was one of the most active and influential figures in British book production over the first half of the nineteenth-century" (Walter Scott Digital Archive). Cf. Esdaile, p. 13 (1st & 2d Redborne editions). Near Fine.
