Title: The chronicle of Richard of Devizes concerning the deeds of Richard the First, King of England. Also, Richard of Cirencester's Description of Britain. Translated and edited by J.A. Giles, LL. D. Late Fellow of C. C. Coll. Oxford
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. iv, 222, f. [1] (plates). Signatures: [A]4 B-P8. Cloth. Includes map.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The English text of Richard of Cirencester is Henry Hatcher’s translation of 1809 (see Bib# 4103113/Fr# 398 in this collection), unacknowledged by John Giles save for a vague reference to ‘the ed. of 1809.’ The notes by Thomas Leman are plagiarized verbatim from the same source, again without acknowledgement. The Latin text is from the 1757 ‘original’ (see Bib# 4103111/Fr#396).</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1862732" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>