Catherine of Valois, on the left, dressed in white, surrounded by female attendants with two bishops behind her, approaching Henry V, on the right, soldiers behind him waving a white banner, with a crown and sceptre placed on a pillow on the far left
Description:
Title from caption below image., Imprint from impression in the British Museum., and Later impression? Imprint too faint to read.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs July 1st, 1799, by Colnaghi Sala & Co. (late Torre) No. 132, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Catherine, of Valois, Queen, consort of Henry V, King of England, 1401-1437., Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422., and Charles VI, King of France, 1368-1422.
Manuscript on parchment (crude) of Copy of an account book for the hunting expenses of King Charles VI of France. The account is rendered by Philippe de Courguilleroy (?) "chevalier maistre veneur du Roy et maistre de ses canes et forestz" and encompasses November 1395 to 2 February 1396
Description:
In French., Script: Written in a chancery script by a single scribe., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Brown mottled and spattered calf with a red label, gold-tooled.
Date of publication suggested by cataloger., Verse - "As our King lay musing on his bed,"., In three columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., In this edition part of the title reads "(instead of the tribute due)". In another edition with the same imprint (ESTC T206330), it reads "(instead of the tribute due)"., The "st" ligature found at end of imprint is some form of code found in many broadsides with this imprint; its significance has not been determined (possibly a form of press figure?)., Mounted on leaf 66. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London
Subject (Name):
Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422 and Charles VI, King of France, 1368-1422
