vi, 562 pages : colour frontispiece ; (8vo)

Chronicles of the Crusades, being contemporary narratives of the crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion / by Richard of Devizes [translated by J.A. Giles] and Geoffrey de Vinsauf; and of the crusade of Saint Louis, by Lord John de Joinville [translated by T. Johnes].

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Richard, of Devizes, approximately 1150-approximately 1200. Chronicon de rebus gestis Ricardi primi.

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Chronicles of the Crusades, being contemporary narratives of the crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion / by Richard of Devizes [translated by J.A. Giles] and Geoffrey de Vinsauf; and of the crusade of Saint Louis, by Lord John de Joinville [translated by T. Johnes].