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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Spine very slightly faded. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar begun by the Bristol town clerk Robert Ricart in 1478/9 combines an exceedingly rare provincial town chronicle with collections of legal precedents civic oaths and other related material which with its lavish illustrations make it unparalleled among the products of later medieval English urban culture. No other fifteenth- century English town or city not even London had thought it necessary to produce such an exquisite book or if they had all trace of such a book has since been lost. Lucy Toulmin Smith edited The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar for the Camden Society in 1872. She was a very considerable scholar and her edition is accurate but she omitted much original material including all of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century extensions of the chronicle and all but one of the illustrations. Modern printing techniques now make possible the faithful colour reproduction of these illustrations. This volume consists of a substantial introduction a selection of the later chronicle material and facsimiles of the pages of the Kalendar that carry illustrations many of which are here published for the first time. (LL)