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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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DESIGN AND DISTRIBUTION OF LATE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS IN ENGLAND.
York: University of York Medieval Press, 2008. 8vo., pp.xiii,336, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with presentation inscription from L. Mooney to front free endpaper, very slight tone to edges, a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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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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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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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 MIRK’S FESTIAL. [In Two Volumes.] Edited from British Library Ms. Cotton Claudius A.II. Early English text Society O.S. 334.
London: Oxford University Press, for The Early English Text Society. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.cxlv,188;viii,189-690, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece to volume I, 7 further b/w plates; a fine, fresh set, in fine unclipped dust-jackets, with light creasing to head of spine of Volume II.
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KING HORN: An Edition Based on Cambridge University Library MS Gg. 4.27 (2).
New York: Garland Publishing, 1984. 8vo., pp. xvii,416, terracotta cloth, gilt; ex-library with bookplates stamped as withdrawn to front paste down and front free endpapers, with acquisition number label to front free endpaper and acquisition label to foot of spine, stamp to publication page, light foxing to upper edge of text block, otherwise text is clean and very good. No dust-jacket.
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KNYGHTHODE AND BATAILE. A XVth Century Verse Paraphrase of Flavius Vegetius Renatus’ Treatise. ‘De Re Militari’
Oxford: Early English Text Society, 1971. Unaltered Reprint, 8vo.,pp. lxxvi,205, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; foxing to edges of text block, light sunning to spine, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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KYNG ALISAUNDER. [In Two Volumes:]
Vol. I. Text; Volume II. Introduction, Commentary and Glossary. Early English Text Society No.s 227 and 237.
London: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1961. Two volumes, reprinted, 8vo., pp.xx,445;(v),217, brown cloth, gilt, b/w facsimile frontispiece and plate to Volume I; very good indeed. No dust-jackets.
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