The first crusade
Subtitle: the deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites = "Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum"
By: translated into English for the first time by Somerset De Chair ; engravings by Clifford Webb
Contributors: Sandford, Christopher, book designer; Golden Cockerel Press; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press
Published: 1945
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Crusades; Crusades (First : 1096-1099) fast (OCoLC)fst00884405
Other titles: Deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites
Work titles: Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolymitanorum. English
Notes: "First English edition (in London)--A.D. 1945."--Title page verso.

"The present translation is based upon a collation of the three mediaeval manuscripts now accepted as being nearest to the original"--Introduction.

"The first crusade has been designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Poliphilus type on Arnold's hand-made paper. Composition and press-work under the supervision of F.J. Newbery at the Chiswick Press. The edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. Numbers 1-100 have been specially bound."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 45, signed by the translator.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full parchment, sewn on four tapes; with a central vignette of crusaders stamped in gold on upper and lower covers; smooth spine with gilt lettering and publisher's device; turn-ins gilt with a single-line fillet border; top edge gilt; yellow and black silk endbands; signed "Bound by S. & S., London" at tail end of upper turn-in.