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THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD EDITION OF THE NOVELS OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE. [14 Volume Set: Complete Set of the Barsetshire Novels in 13 Volumes, plus An Autobiography].6
Barchester Towers I and II; Framley Parsonage I and II; The Small House at Allington I and II; The Warden; Dr. Thorne I and II; The Last Chronicle of Barset I-IV; An Autobiography.
Straford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, by Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Large paper edition, limited to 525 copies, 14 volumes, 8vo., uncut, green cloth, gilt, t.e.g.; offsetting and light foxing to free endpapers, some light foxing to fore-edges and to prelims, o/w bright and clean, light marking to front board of ‘Allington’ vol.I, a very good set.
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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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MEDIAEVAL LOVE-SONG. The John Coffin Memorial Lecture 1961.
London: Athlone Press. 8vo., pp.32, printed wrappers; owner’s neat inscription to half-title, light partial sunning to wrappers, very good.
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LETTERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON CONCERNING PHILOLOGY AND THE CLASSICS.
University of Virginia. First edition, 8vo., pp.75, printed wrappers, b/w frontispiece; light chipping to extremities of wrappers, small area of water staining to front of wrappers through to prelims, a very good copy.
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VATHEK AND OTHER STORIES: A William Beckford Reader.
London, William Pickering. First edition, 8vo.,pp.xxxviii,314, blue hard covers, gilt; near-fine copy in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which has some soiling to rear, small closed tears and chips to extremities o/w good.
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JACK RAYMOND.
London: William Heinemann. First edition, 8vo., pp.300,(unpaginated adverts), uncut, cloth, gilt; paste-action to endpapers & half-title, light rubbing to extremities, a very good, clean copy.
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WULFSTAN’S PROSE:
Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, British Academy.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. First edition, 8vo., pp. 36, paper pamplet, uncut; darkening and wear to extremities, a good copy.
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WORTERBUCH ZU HARTMANNS IWEIN,
Zweite Ausgabe Besgort von E. Wilken.
Gottingen: Dieterichsche Verlags-Buchhandlung. First edition, 8vo., pp.viii,391, cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt; rebacked preserving the original cloth, front board loose, wear to extremities, internally clean, a good working copy.
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DIE FROMMIGKEIT IM PARZIVAL WOLFRAMS VON ESCHENBACH: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Religiosen Geistes in der Laienwelt des Deutschen Mittelalters.
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1968. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,287, cloth; a very good copy.
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THE PARDON OF PIERS PLOWMAN:
Sir Israel Gaollancz Memorial Lecture, from the Proceedings of the Royal Academy Volume XXXI.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. Offprint edition, 8vo., pp.57, original printed wrappers, uncut; fore-edges of wrappers browned and creased, with a few small tears, a good copy, which is internally fresh and very good.
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POETS AND THEIR CRITICS: LANGLAND AND MILTON.
Warton Lecture on English Poetry, from the Proceedings of the British Academy Volume XXVII.
London: Humphrey Milford. Offprint edition, 8vo., pp.48, original printed wrappers, uncut; wrappers worn at edges and spine (front wrapper working loose), a good copy.
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THE AMBIGUITIES IN LANGLAND’S RAT’S PARLIAMENT.
Mediaeval Studies Volume XXIII.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Offprint, author’s presentation copy, 8vo., pp.216-239, original printed wrappers; a very good copy.
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THE GRAIL IN WOLFRAM’S PARZIVAL:
Mediaeval Studies Volume XXXVI.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Offprint edition, author’s presentation copy, 8vo., pp.354-381, original printed wrappers; a few very small ink annotations, o/w a very good copy.
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GLIGLOIS.
A French Arthurian Romance of the Thirteenth Century.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press. First edition, 8vo., pp.viii,182,cloth, gilt; light rubbing to head and tail of spine, o/w a near fine copy in dust-jacket with some tears.
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