" Bruges ( Brugge ), Imprimerie de Louis De Plancke, publié par la Société d'Emulation, 1899, 2 vols large in-8°, 26 x 17,5 cm, (8)nn pp + 463 pp ; (8)nn pp + 1290 pp + (2)errata. Uniformy bound in dark blue half morocco, gilt title and ornaments on spine, very nice copies. Published by the ''Société d'Émulation de Bruges "" in the Third Series of '' Recueil de Chroniques, Chartes et Autres Documents concernant l'Histoire et les Antiquités de la Flandre''. The Bégard Friars was a society of lay brothers, not unlike their female counterparts; the much more familiar beguines . Founded in around 1252 in Bruges they were during the nearly 750 years of existence active as e.g. a guilt of weavers, as schoolteachers organising education , in charity...This publication gives exhaustive information on their history based on their rich archives.."