Description

Hardcover, oversize quarto [11.75 in.], pictorial laminated boards in publisher’s dust-jacket repeating cover art. 352 pages. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. First edition, first printing by this publisher. Includes some 150,000 words translated into English from contemporary texts, arranged in “over 100 essays, illustrated mostly in color, [to] provide background information on contemporary events, people, customs and traditions. [Included are] notes on the place of women in society, herbal remedies, popular food and drink, music, poetry, medicine…” et alia. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, near as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A very large and heavy tome, media mail only.