Hafod Press

Hafod Press

Johnes (Thomas) translator., Sir John Froissart’s Chronicles of England, France, and the Adjoining Countries…, 4 vols., First edition of the Johnes translation, as well as the first work issued by the Hafod Press, engraved vignette title pages, two engraved maps, 57 aquatint plates reproducing illuminated miniatures, intermittent spotting and offsetting, some sections heavier in vol. 3, bookplate of Richard Howard to front pastedown, contemporary gilt-panelled calf, rebacked, vol. 1 with further repair to joints and corners, at the Hafod Press by James Henderson, 1803-05; with: Memoirs of John Lord de Joinville, Grand Seneschal of Champagne, written by himself…, 2 vols., half-titles, title vignettes, 3 maps including 2 folding, 3 plates including frontispiece and one folding, spotting, contemporary marbled calf, spines with girl morocco lettering labels, one lacking, spines worn and cracking to vol. 1, 1807; large 4to (6)