The object of this edition of La Tour-Landry was to give a modernized, but not a weakened version of the original 15th century manuscript, anonymously translated from the French in the reign of King Henry VI, and now in the Harleian collection in the British Museum. Originally, the Book of the Chevalier de La Tour Landry was the manual of deportment for girls of birth in France, England and such parts of Germany as were relatively civilized, from the year of its appearance to well into the Renaissance.