Hardback, Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts, London 1859. First edition. Introduction in English, text in Latin and Anglo-French. Quarter leather bound, gilt titles on brown spine which is very shelfworn, detached from backing on back board, green boards frayed with badly rubbed corners and edges bumped. Facsimile of first page of Liber Albus tipped in on title page. Previous owners\' names inscribed on front endpaper otherwise unannotated. Text block internally clean, edges slightly browned. 741p.A compilation of information contained in the City of London Guildhall archives relating to the laws and statutes, ordinances and regulations, and institutions of the City of London from the twelfth to the early fifteenth century. Originally compiled by John Carpenter, Town Clerk and completed in 1419.