Magna carta and other charters of English liberties
Contributors: Great Britain; Guyon House Press; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Guyon House Press
Published: 1938
Place of publication: London]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Charters, grants, privileges; Constitutional history; Sources; History
Work titles: Magna Carta
Notes: Latin and English.

"The text of the documents as here printed is substantially the same as that given by McKechnie in his Magna carta, the second edition of which appeared at Glasgow in 1914"--Note.

"Magna carta and other charters of English liberties in a revised text and translation of Noël Denholm-Young and with head and tail-pieces by Berthold Wolpe has been printed and bound by Theodore Besterman assisted by V.H. Ridler and F.J. Coton at the Guyon House Press ... The copies on Batchelor hand-made paper are numbered 1-250 and those on vellum are lettered A-F."--Page [79].

Printed in red and teal.

Rare Book copy: Copy F, on vellum.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full parchment with remnants of red silk ties, sewn on three recessed alum-tawed thongs or parchment tapes; gilt fillet border on upper and lower covers; smooth gold-tooled spine; turn-ins gilt with a single-line fillet; cream watered silk doublures; inner joint of alum-tawed skin; free endpapers lined with cream watered silk; all edges gilt; stuck-on endbands.
Table of contents: title: The coronation charter of Henry I, A.D. MC.; title: The charter of Stephen, A.D. MCXXXV.; title: The coronation charter of Henry II, A.D. MCLIV.; title: The unknown charter of liberties, A.D. MCCXIV.; title: The great charter of A.D. MCCXV.; title: The charter of the forest, A.D. MCCXVII.; title: The great charter of A.D. MCCXXV.