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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 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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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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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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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, 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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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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BLUE IN OLD ENGLISH. An Interdisciplinary Semantic Study. Costerus New Series 110.
Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1997. 8vo., pp.333, paperback; slight shelfwear, a very good, fresh copy.
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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’S BOCCACCIO.
Sources of Troilus and the Knight’s and Franklin’s Tales.
Cambridge/Totowa: D.S. Brewer/Rowman and Littlefield, 1980. 8vo., pp.(iv),225, black cloth, gilt; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in good+ edgeworn unclipped dust-jacket, which is now in a protective cover.
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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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CHAUCERIAN POLITY: ABSOLUTIST LINEAGES AND ASSOCIATIONAL FORMS IN ENGLAND AND ITALY.
Stanford University Press. First edition, 8vo., pp.xix,555, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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CHAUCERIAN POLITY: ABSOLUTIST LINEAGES AND ASSOCIATIONAL FORMS IN ENGLAND AND ITALY.
California: Stanford University Press, 1997. First edition, tall 8vo., pp.xix,555, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a fine copy, in vg+ (fine?) unclipped dust-jacket.
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CURSOR MUNDI. A Northumbrian Poem of the XIVth Century. Four Versions. [Set of Seven Volumes:] Parts I - V. Text; Part VI. Preface, Notes and Glossary; Part VII. Essay on the Manuscripts and Dialect.
Published for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1961. Set of seven volumes, reprinted, 8vo., paperback wrappers, b/w frontispiece; a fresh and near-fine set, with just slight wear to wrappers.
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