With illuminated added title-page & 36 hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gold; accompanying letterpress descriptions. 9½x6¾, period ful green morocco tooled in gilt on covers and spine, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt.

Charles Dickens' copy, with his bookplate featuring a lion holding a Maltese Cross on the front pastedown; at the lower left of the pastedown is the printed label, "From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870." The bookplate of Edmund Lister Johnson, dated 1902, is on the front free endpaper, and a small bookplate with the initials N H L T in the corners is at the upper right of the pastedown. All the bookplates except the last display foxing. The present volume is the companion to Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart. Selected from the MS. in the British Museum, 1844, and the two are often offered as a set.