MONSTRELET, Enguerrand de. - Chronicles of Enguerran de Monstrelet, a gentleman formerly living in Cambray en Cambresis. Contenant les cruelles guerres civilles entre les maisons d'Orléans & de Bourgongne, l'occupation de Paris & Normandie par les Anglois, l'expulsion d'iceux, & autres choses mémorable advenues de son temps en ce Royaume & paÿs estanges... Reveue & corrigée... & enriched with abbreviations for the introduction to it & very copious tables. A Paris, chez Pierre l'Huillier, chez Guillaume Chaudière, 1572 - 3 volumes bound in two folio volumes of (12), 327 (i.e. 324, 31*, 31**, 31***), (6) ff. for volume 1; (8), 201, (5) ff. including 1 blank for volume 2; (10), 255, (12) ff. for volume 3; tan calf, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets, motifs and crowned arms, triple framing of gilt fillets on the covers, arms in the centres, gilt inner border (18th century binding). Edition decorated with the printers' marks on the titles: volume I is addressed to Pierre l'Huillier, volumes II and III are addressed to Guillaume Chaudière, there are also a multitude of woodcut initials in the text. "This edition is the finest we have of these chronicles" (Brunet, III, 1832). The Chronique de Monstrelet is one of the main historical sources for the first half of the 15th century; consisting of two books, it covers the years 1400 to 1444. The third book, which ends in 1467, is not by Monstrelet. It is followed in this edition by the Chronique scandaleuse, attributed to Jean de Roye, and the continuation by Pierre Desrey, which continued until 1512. A copy bearing the arms of Louis Robert Hippolyte de Bréhan, comte de Plélo (Brittany, 1699-1734). Joints cracked (the first cover of volume I is partially detached), headbands and corners worn, the second volume (containing volumes II and III) is fully set, handwritten signature "de Bréhan" on the first two titles; ex-libris of the Charles Schefer library.