KING AELFRED’S OROSIUS, THE ANGLO-SAXON VERSION, FROM THE HI...

Hammer

£440

KING AELFRED’S OROSIUS, THE ANGLO-SAXON VERSION, FROM THE HISTORIAN OROSIUS. BY AELFRED THE GREAT. TOGETHER WITH AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON, first edition, full leather, embossed decoration to cover and spine, laid paper, inscribed to front free endpaper and half title page, pasted label to half title page (explained in inserted dealer’s correspondence), title page inscribed with translator’s credit to ‘The Hon. Daines Barrington’, printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols and sold by S. Baker et al, London 1773

Provenance: The Estate of Lord Kenyon, Gredington.