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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 COMPANION TO GOWER.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005. 8vo.,pp. 286, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; light sunning to spine, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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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 ARTHURIAN TAPESTRY Essays in memory of Lewis Thorpe
International Arthurian Society, 1981. English and French text. 8vo., pp. xi,401, paperback, yellow wrappers; lightly rubbed, else a very good 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, 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 OLD GERMANIC METRE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xii,235, paperback; a fine, fresh copy.
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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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