(BATTLE OF HASTINGS). ~ The Roll of Battle Abbey, A.D. 1066 with ye Shields of ye principal Knights in Arms at ye Battle of Hastings. London: [Vincent Brooks, Day & Son for Chatto and Windus, n.d. c. 1879].
Single large folio sheet (750 × 57 mm), printed partially in gold and colours. Mounted on silk, folded and bound in early twentieth-century French red half morocco (by Caravon). Very lightly browned, creases at folds but and excellent copy.
A spectacular separately-issued print in the style of a facsimile of an original medieval roll, listing the names of all those who crossed the Channel at the Norman Conquest a fought at the Battle of Hastings. Said to have been preserved in the later Battle Abbey, in fact no such single document existed r survived. Nonetheless the notion of a definitive list of the Norman conquerors was popular, not least among those seeking to trace direct lineage with the French medieval aristocracy. The print is undated but was advertised by Chatto and Windus in 1879.