COMINES, Philippe de (1447?1511).?The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton.?Translated by Thomas Danett (1543?1601). London: A. Hatfield for I. Norton, 1596. Small folio in sixes (295 x 194 mm). Historiated woodcut title with bootstrap framing bearing the royal arms and motto of Burghley, and the printer?s beehive device, several large initial woodcut capitals and tailpieces throughout; 18 pp. genealogical table at end; with the errata leaf, often seen lacking (as in the Pforzheimer copy). (Some discrete marginal repairs to blanks and title?page, some leaves browned or dampstained at margins). Full early niger (rebacked). Provenance: St. Benedict?s Abbey (bookplate); some occasional underlining with marginalia in a contemporary hand. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of a primary source for 15th century European history from ?the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times.? (Oxford Companion to English Literature). Hazlitt II, p. 162; Pforzheimer 190; STC 5602.