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LEGENDYS OF HOOLY WUMMEN.
Early English Text Society, Original Series, No. 26 - 1938 (for 1936).
Woodbridge: Boydell, 1997. Reprint, 8vo., pp.lxxx,322, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a fresh and near-fine copy. No 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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KYNG ALISAUNDER. [In Two Volumes:]
Vol. I. Text; Volume II. Introduction, Commentary and Glossary. Early English Text Society No.s 227 and 237.
London: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1961. Two volumes, reprinted, 8vo., pp.xx,445;(v),217, brown cloth, gilt, b/w facsimile frontispiece and plate to Volume I; very good indeed. No dust-jackets.
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THE EXPLOITATIONS OF MEDIEVAL ROMANCE.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2010. 8vo., pp.x,191, pictorial hardcover; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with presentation inscription from Laura Ashe, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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JOHN GOWER IN MANUSCRIPTS AND EARLY PRINTED BOOKS.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020. 8vo., pp.xvii,303, pictorial hardcover, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations; a fine, fresh copy.
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WRITING LIVES TOGETHER. Romantic and Victorian Auto/Biography.
Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. 8vo., pp.x,148, hardcover; two light indentations to front board, internally fine, a very good, clean copy.
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PREMODERN PLACES.
Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 8vo., pp.ix,342, black hardcover lettered in silver, 30 b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title, upper corners of boards lightly bumped, else a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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BAWDY PLAYS OF BYGONE DAYS. Seven Early Dramas.
Privately published, 2015. 8vo., pp.xx,139, paperback; ownership inscription to title, a very good, fresh copy.
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ABSENT NARRATIVES, MANUSCRIPT TEXTUALITY, AND LITERARY STRUCTURE IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 8vo., pp.xix,284, green hardcover lettered in silver; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title, a fresh and near-fine copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to front inner margin, otherwise fine.
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FROM AUTHOR TO AUDIENCE. John Capgrave and Medieval Publication.
University College Dublin Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.xvii,333, blue hardcover, gilt, 20 b/w plates; a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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MEDIEVAL IMAGES, ICONS, AND ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH LITERARY TEXTS, From the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 8vo., pp.xxv,236, maroon hardcover, gilt, 76 b/w plates; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title, a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE BIRGITTINES OF SYON ABBEY. Preaching and Print. Texts and Transitions, 11.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 8vo., pp.xxii,345, pictorial hardcover; a fine copy.
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ALCHEMY, MEDICINE, AND COMMERCIAL BOOK PRODUCTION. A Codicological and Linguistic Study of the Voigts-Sloane Manuscript Group. Texts and Transitions, 9.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 8vo., pp.xv,248, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS IN TRANSITION.
A Festschrift dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on his 70th birthday.
York Medieval Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.xix,335, pictorial hardcover, colour and b/w illustrations; 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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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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HAIKU.
John Esam - A Strange Life; Anselm Hollo - 17 x 17; Tom Raworth - My Son the Haiku Writer.
London: Trigram Press, 1968. Limited edition of 1,000 copies, 8vo., pp.(iv),(8),(8),(8), paperback, b/w frontispiece, title in red and black, the poems each printed on a different shade of paper, stamped image in red recurs after each of the 3 poems; light crease to upper corners, toning, light creasing and light marking to wrappers, internally clean and very good, a good(+) copy overall.
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ORPHEUS IN MAYFAIR.
London: Mills and Boon Limited, 1909. First edition, 8vo., pp.306,(ii), green cloth, gilt; foxing to prelims and edges, and to margins throughout, ink mark to fore-edges, slight roll and light sunning to spine, a good++ copy. No dust-jacket.
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COLLECTED POEMS.
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THE CHILDREN OF PAUL'S: The Story of a Theatre Company, 1553-1608.
Cambridge University Press, 1982. 8vo., pp.ix,213, brown hardcover, gilt; very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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