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A CRITICAL EDITION OF JOHN LYDGATE'S LIFE OF OUR LADY.
Duquesne Studies, Philological Series 2.
Pittsburgh: Duquesne University, 1961. Small 4to., pp.ix,742, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; rubbing to extremities, with light marking to cloth, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A FACSIMILE OF BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD, MS DOUCE 104.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1992. 8vo., pp.xciv,unpaginated facsimile, green cloth, black title band and gilt lettering to spine, colour plates, b/w figures and facsimile; lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A MIDDLE ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM PETRARCH’S SECRETUM.
Early English Text Society O.S. 351.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 8vo., pp.lxviii,96, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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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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AGENCY AND INTENTION IN ENGLISH PRINT, 1476-1526.
Texts and Transitions, 7.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. 8vo., pp.xv,241, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; 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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ALDHELM: THE POETIC WORKS.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. 8vo., pp.viii,274, brown hardcover, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, with barcode sticker to rear.
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ALDHELM: THE PROSE WORKS.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer/Rowman and Littlefield. 8vo., pp.vi,210, brown hardcover, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, with price-sticker to front flap.
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AN ANONYMOUS SHORT ENGLISH METRICAL CHRONICLE.
London: The Early English Text Society, by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1935. 8vo.,pp. cxxxvi,163, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light toning to margins, light foxing to edges of text block, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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ANCRENE WISSE.
A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402 With Variants from Other Manuscripts. Volumes I and II.
Oxford University Press, 2005. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.lxxiv,254;lvii,477, brown cloth, gilt; both fresh and fine copies, in fine unclipped dust-jackets.
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ANGLO-LATIN LITERATURE 600-899.
London/Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xvi,534, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w illustrations, 2 b/w maps; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is slightly sunned to spine.
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ANGLO-LATIN LITERATURE 900-1066.
London/Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xiv,506, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 6 further b/w illustrations; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is slightly sunned to spine, with undulations to paper at lower section of spine.
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ARTS OF POSSESSION.
The Middle English Household Imaginary. Minnesota Medieval Cultures, Volume 33.
Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xviii,318, paperback, b/w illustrations; crease to upper corner of rear wrapper, slight sunning to spine, else very good indeed.
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AUTHOR, SCRIBE, AND BOOK IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2018. 8vo., pp.xii,226, pictorial hardcover, 3 b/w plates; a fine copy.
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BEOWULF AND FOUR RELATED OLD ENGLISH POEMS.
A Verse Translation with Explanatory Notes.
New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. Signed by the author, 8vo., pp.xxv,170, pictorial cloth, black lettering; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, very slightly bruised to upper corner of front board, otherwise a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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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, else fresh and very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has light creasing to extremities.
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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 Studies XVII: THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE CANTERBURY TALES.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991. 8vo., pp.xii,132, black hardcover with printed paper label to front board, gilt; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, signed to title, toning to free endpapers, light bruising to upper corners of boards, a very good, clean copy.
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