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A COMPANION TO ALAIN CHARTIER (c.1385-1430). Father of French Eloquence. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume 56.
Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015. 8vo., pp.xiii,374, pictorial hardcover; a fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A CONCORDANCE TO JOHN GOWER’S CONFESSIO AMANTIS. Publications of the John Gower Society, I.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987. 8vo.,pp. x,1124, black cloth, silver lettering; light shelf wear to edges of text block, otherwise clean and a very good copy, in a very good price clipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, light sunning to spine with light chipping to head and foot of spine and corners.
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A KNIGHT'S LEGACY. Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England.
Manchester University Press, 2011. 8vo., pp.xi,216, maroon hardcover, gilt; tiny stain to fore-edges, an otherwise fine, fresh copy, in fine unclipped 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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A THESAURUS OF OLD ENGLISH. [Set of Two Volumes:] Volume I. Introduction and Thesaurus; Volume II. Index. King’s College London Medieval Studies, XI.
Centre for Late Antique amd Medieval Studies, 1995. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxv,716;xxxv,717-1555, maroon hardcover, gilt; a very good set indeed. No dust-jackets.
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A WYF THER WAS.
Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck.
Liege: Liege Language and Literature, 1992. 8vo.,pp. 300, paperback; ownership autograph to half title page, toned to margins, creasing to spine, light wear to head of spine at its rear corner, otherwise a very good 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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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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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CELTIC LANGUAGES.
London/New York: Longman, 1995. 8vo., pp.xviii,347, paperback; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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BARTHAR SAGA. Volume 8, Series A: GARLAND LIBRARY OF MEDIEVAL LITERATURE.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1984. 8vo., pp.xxix,143, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, figures and frontispiece; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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BEDE’S ECCLESISTICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969. 8vo.,pp. lxxvi, 618, navy hardcover, bronze lettering to spine; ownership inscription to front paste down endpaper, small patch of wear to inner hinge with webbing slightly visible but otherwise firm, light foxing to upper edge of text block, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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BEOWULF AND CELTIC TRADITION.
Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1979. 8vo., pp.ix,142, pictorial burgundy cloth, lettered in cream; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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BEOWULF AND OLD GERMANIC METRE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xii,235, paperback; a fine, fresh copy.
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BEOWULF AND OLD GERMANIC METRE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xii,235, navy hardcover, gilt; ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, light glue staining to paste-down endpapers, bruising to front board extremities and lightly to spine, slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is slightly soiled and rubbed to headband, else very good.
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BEOWULF AND THE DRAGON. Parallels and Analogues.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. 8vo., pp. x,230, navy hardcover, with pale blue title label to front board, gilt lettering to spine; upper section of front free endpaper cropped, otherwise a clean and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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BEOWULF'S WEALTHEOW AND THE VALKYRIE TRADITION
Madison, London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 8vo., pp.xiii,269, hardcover, gilt; a near-fine 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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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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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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