First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt to the spine, and decorated in blind to the covers. Illustrated throughout with headpieces and full-page illustrations by Edgar Taylor, after Stothard’s drawings of the Bayeux Tapestry for the Society Of Antiquaries.
 
A near fine copy, externally clean, with some spotting internally.
 
The first edition of Edgar Taylor’s translation of one of the few medieval accounts of the events described in the Bayeux Tapestry, illustrated with scenes from the tapestry drawn by Taylor.