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BLANQUERNA: A THIRTEENTH CENTURY ROMANCE.
London: Jarrolds, 1926. Tall 8vo., pp.536, backed in cream linen, gilt, marbled boards; light foxing to prelims, foxing to fore-edges, rubbing and light wear to paper covering at extremities of boards, internally fresh, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has 3cm closed tear and creasing to front lower margin, and two further small closed tears to extremities, else very good.
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BLOODY CONSTRAINT. War and Chivalry in Shakespeare.
New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.246, brown hardback, red gilt, b/w frontispiece; owner’s inscription to front board, fine with near-fine unclipped dust-jacket with sunning to spine.
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BLOOMSBURY.
London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 8vo., pp.126, brown hardcover lettered in white; includes selection of TLS regarding future corrections to the text; a very good, clean copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear, light creasing and very mild chipping to extremities. Now in a protective cover.
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BOETHIUS AND DIALOGUE.
Literary Method in The Consolation of Philosophy.
Princeton University Press, 1985. 8vo., pp.x,264, brown cloth with stamped title label, gilt; light partial sunning to cloth, slight roll to spine, a very good, internally fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOK CATALOGUES: THEIR VARIETIES AND USES.
St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1986. 8vo., pp.xxxvii,284, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light creasing to headband, slight toning to edges, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOKS FOR SALE. The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century.
New Castle, DE/London: Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2009. 8vo., pp.xvi,191, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine, fresh copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOKS ON THE MOVE. Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade.
New Castle, DE/London: Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2007. 8vo., pp.xv,164, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; slight bruise to upper edge of front board, else fresh and fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOKS UNDER SUSPICION.
Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England.
Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 8vo., pp.lii,562, hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, light bruising to extremities, light roll to spine, else fresh and very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has light creasing to extremities.
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BOTTOM: On Shakespeare.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First edition thus, 8vo.,pp. 470, paperback, pictorial title page; light sunning to spine, a very good copy.
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BOY. A Novel.
London: Boriswood Limited, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.271, orange cloth lettered in black, top edges black; some foxing to edges and front free endpaper, a very good, fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly rubbed and chipped to upper edge.
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BROKEN HARMONY: Shakespeare and the Politics of Music.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. 8vo.,pp. xiv,261, navy cloth, silver lettering, b/w figures; heavily annotated in ink to front paste down and front free endpapers with light annotation to rear free endpaper, some light pencil annotation to margins of text, lower corners of boards slightly knocked and small sticker marking to rear, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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CANAL DREAMS.
London: Macmillan. First edition, 8vo., pp.198, black hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation inscription to half title and title pages, slight mark to lower margin of front board, else fresh and near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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CANCER; FRAUS HONESTA. Renaissance Latin Drama in England, Second Series: 2.
Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.23 (Introduction),249-378,(iv),133 (facsimiles), paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); a very good copy indeed.
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CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST PORTION OF THE EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DAVID LAING, ESQ., LL.D.
Comprising an Extraordinary Collection of Works by Scottish Writers or Relating to Scotland, Many of Excessive Rarity and Several Unique, Including Complete Series of the Publications of the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, and other Literary Clubs; Transactions of Scotch and English Societies; Writings of Eminent Divines, Historians and Topographers; First Editions of Novelists, Poets and Dramatists; Early Voyages and Travels.
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 1879. Auction catalogue, 8vo., pp.(ii),271, printed paper wrappers; surface soil and wear to wrappers, with some loss at extremities, internally clean, a good copy.
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CATULLUS.
United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 8vo., pp.,x,243, pictorial paperback, b/w illustrations; a very good, clean and near fine copy.
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CHAUCER AND THE MAKING OF OPTICAL SPACE.
Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. 8vo.,pp. 377, paperback, b/w figures; a near-fine copy.
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CHAUCER AND WAR.
Lanham/New York/Oxford: University Press of America, 2000. 8vo., pp.xvi,259, black hardcover lettered in gilt; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, o/w near-fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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CHAUCER'S LEGENDARY GOOD WOMEN.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xi,i,338, brown hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed.
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CHAUCER’S PARDONER’S PROLOGUE AND TALE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1900 TO 1995.
Toronto/Buffalo/London: University of Toronto Press, 1900. First edition, 8vo., pp.445, red cloth; gilt illustration on front cover; owner’s very small ink inscription to half-title page, o/w a fine copy.
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CHAUCER'S PHILOSOPHICAL VISIONS.
Chaucer Studies XXVII.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. 8vo., pp.viii,178, brown hardcover with printed paper label to front board, gilt; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, slight sunning to spine/front upper margin, bump to upper edge of front board, else a very good, fresh copy.
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