The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince, from Contemporary Letters, Diaries and Chronicles, including Chandos Herald's Life of the Black Prince [Edward of Woodstock] (The Folio Society)

139 pp. Illustrated with color plates, which reproduce miniatures from two fourteenth-century French manuscripts in the British Library (Cotton Nero E ii, pt 2 and Royal 20 c.viii). A biography of the eldest son of King Edward III of England, later known as The Black Prince. His father outlived him, so the throne passed to his son Richard II. This work, collected from various sources, covers mainly the 1340s and 1350s. Map of Aquitaine on endpapers.