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Sub-title: Being Contemporary Narratives of the Crusade of Richard Coeur De Lion by Richard of Devizes and Geoffrey de Vinsauf; and of the Crusade of Saint Louis, by Lord John de Joinville. In Bohn’s Antiquarian Library series. Their usual blue-grey embossed cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, coloured frontispiece, 4-page advertisement for Bohn’s Standard Library bound in at front, 562 pages, publisher’s catalogue to rear. Book plate of George Ebenezer Foster to front paste down, with bookseller’s label- “Arthur Probsthain, Oriental Bookseller, 41 Gt. Russell Street, London , W. C. 1”. Condition: Boards faded, rubbed and bumped, some spotting to end papers, pencil note to first page of publisher’s advertisement and last page of the catalogue, binding firm, text pages of work clean and unmarked.