BARBER (ed.) RichardMareMagnum
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8vo., First Edition thus, with a coloured frontispiece and plates, and endpaper maps; red pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver and black, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates, 5 maps in the text and a folding map at end; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled at (predominantly white) rear panel. Collis's classic account of forty turbulent years of the fourteenth century. Uncommon in this condition.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, faint traces of storage, very slight rubbing to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 147pp. From a limited edition of 1075 copies. A study of the military activities of the Cheshire people linked to the major events of the period 1345 to 1399. During this time the Earl of Chester, known as the 'Black Prince' embarked on his military career and the reign of his son, King Richard II ended in 1399. Over three hundred Cheshire people are mentioned in the text and over a thousand more in the ten appendices. Any person with a Cheshire sounding surname should find an ancestor among the many names.
