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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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DESIRE IN THE CANTERBURY TALES.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015. 8vo., pp.x,225, pictorial hardcover; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title page, just slight roll to spine, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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Early English Text Society Extra Series, LXXV. SPECULUM GY DE WAREWYKE.
An Early English Poem. With Introduction, Notes and Glossary.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1898. 8vo., pp.cxcvi,116, uncut and unopened, lilac wrappers; sunning to spine and margins, light shelfwear to wrappers, a very good copy.
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EMPIRE OF MAGIC. Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy.
8vo., pp.xii,521, orange hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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ENGLISH POETS IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES:
Chaucer, Langland and Others.
Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. 8vo., pp.xii,342, teal cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, very slight toning to margins, barcode sticker to rear board, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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English Writers of the Late Middle Ages: SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE.
Authors of the Middle Ages, I.
Aldershot: Variorum, 1993. 8vo., pp.(iv),60, paperback; slight creasing to wrappers, a clean and good+ copy.
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ESSAYS ON MALORY.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. First edition, 8vo., pp.ix,147, navy cloth, gilt; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with his and earlier ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which is partially toned, with wear to extremities.
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FAITH, ETHICS AND CHURCH.
Writing in England, 1360-1409.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. 8vo., pp.xii,153, green hardcover, gilt, with printed paper label to front board; slight toning to margins, a very good, clean copy.
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FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF CHAUCER CRITICISM AND ALLUSION, 1357-1900.
With Introduction, Notes, Appendices and General Index. [Set of Three Volumes]
Cambridge University Press, 1925. Three volumes, 8vo., pp.cxliv,504;288,152;109,153,86, uncut, pictorial navy cloth, gilt, 24 collotype plates (including frontispieces), with tissue guards; toning to endpapers, light uniform sunning to spines, 2 splits to cloth at head of spine of Volume I, as well as light mark to spine of Volume I, a very good, clean set.
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FORGING CHIVALRIC COMMUNITIES IN MALORY'S LE MORTE DARTHUR.
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2005. 8vo., pp.ix,208, navy hardcover, gilt; ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper (concealed by dust-jacket), else fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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FOUR WYCLIFFITE DIALOGUES.
Unites States: Oxford University Press, 2009. 8vo., pp., lxxi,151, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near fine copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket
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FROM AUTHOR TO AUDIENCE.
John Capgrave and Medieval Publication.
University College Dublin Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.xvii,333, blue hardcover, gilt, 20 b/w plates; a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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GENDER AND GENRE IN MEDIEVAL FRENCH LITERATURE. Cambridge Studies in French 53.
Cambridge University Press, 2005. Reprint, 8vo., pp.x,372, paperback; a fine, fresh copy.
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GILTE LEGENDE. Two Volumes.
Early English Text Society, O.S. 327 and 328.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, for The Early English Text Society, 2006. Two volumes, 8vo.,pp. xvi; vii,1036, brown cloth, gilt, b/w plate to vol.I and b/w frontispiece to both volumes; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jackets, with slight crease to head of spine of vol.II.
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GREEK LITERARY HANDS, A.D. 400-1600. Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Slim 4to., pp.xxxvi,51, blue cloth, gilt, b/w plates; a very good, fresh copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with light partial sunning and just a couple of small nicks to extremities.
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HEROES AND SARACENS
An Interpretation of the Chansons de Geste
Edinburgh University Press, 1984. First edition, 8vo., pp.349, brown cloth, gilt; a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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ICONOGRAPHY AND THE PROFESSIONAL READER.
The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman. Medieval Cultures Volume 15.
Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xviii,268, black hardcover lettered in white; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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JOHN GOWER IN MANUSCRIPTS AND EARLY PRINTED BOOKS.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020. 8vo., pp.xvii,303, pictorial hardcover, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations; a fine, fresh copy.
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JOHN GOWER'S POETIC: The Search for a New Arion. Publications of the John Gower Society, II.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990. 8vo.,pp. 289, hardcover, silver lettering; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers, light bump to upper corners of boards, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities with chipping to head and foot of spine with light wear to corners and sunning to spine.
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