The book of fayttes of armes and of chyualrye
By: translated and printed by William Caxton from the French original by Christine de Pisan, edited by A. T. P. Byles.
Contributors: Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491, tr.; Bonet, Honoré, fl. 1378-1398.; Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.; Byles, A. T. P. ed.
Series: Early English Text Society. Original series ;; no. 189. 1932
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English text society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: London
Language: enm
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Military art and science -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Fayttes of armes and chyualrye.
Notes: "Short bibliography of works on Christine de Pisan": p. xiii-xiv. "The manuscripts": p. xiv-xxxvi.
"Reissued with corrections, 1937."
Largely a compilation from the works of Vegetius, Frontinus, Valerius Maximus, Honoré Bonet, and a contemporary anonymous authority on sieges; books three and four, in the form of questions and answers, are based on Bonet's "L'arbre des batailles".
Early English Text Society's list of publications, etc. (8 p.) at end.