The Deeds of the English Kings (The Folio Society)

xxxix, 568 pp. Color reproductions from various illuminated manuscripts. Edited and translated by R.A.B. Mynors, completed by R.M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom, introduction by Peter Ackroyd. Originally completed in 1126, but revised for years afterwards, by '[p]erhaps the most learned European of his day.' Includes important firsthand accounts of the Norman Conquest, the reigns of William I & II and Henry I, the Crusades, etc.