8vo. xcvi, 324pp. Text in English, Latin, and Old French. Interleaved throughout. Bound by Lake and Mackenzie of Uxbridge in contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled papers boards, morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped and exposed. Marbled endpapers, contemporary review of the publication - extracted from The Gentleman's Magazine - tipped-in to front blank fly-leaf. Armorial bookplate of Benjamin Williams to FEP, with his inked ownership inscription to verso of FFEP, and extensive manuscript annotations throughout.

The editor's own copy, extensively annotated, of a translation and analysis of a contemporary French manuscript chronicle detailing the overthrow, deposition, and death of Richard II.

The numerous corrections to the text and lengthy additional manuscript passages evidently show the author - Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Benjamin Williams (1803-1860) - intended to publish a revised second edition, this however never came to fruition.