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SHEBA’S DAUGHTERS.
Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Women in Medieval French Epic.
New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1998. 8vo., pp.xxxvii,253, quarter grey cloth, gilt, pictorial paper-covered boards, b/w frontispiece; internally fresh, slight scoring to rear board, a very good copy indeed.
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SIR BEVIS OF HAMPTON. Two Volumes. Edited from Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS XIII.B.29 and Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.2.38.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Two volumes, 8vo., pp. xciii,231;232-493; brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece to both volumes; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jackets.
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SIXTEENTH-CENTURY READERS, FIFTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS.
Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation.
Cambridge University Press, 2019. 8vo., pp.xv,316, b/w illustrations; black hardcover, fine, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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SOURCES AND ANALOGUES OF THE CANTERBURY TALES, Volume I.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xii,627, paperback; ownership bookplate to front wrapper verso, tiny note of price to inner margin of half title, a very good, fresh copy.
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SOURCES AND ANALOGUES OF THE CANTERBURY TALES, Volume II.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003. 8vo., pp.xvi,824, red hardcover, gilt; a very good copy indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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SPEAKING IMAGES. Essays in Honour of V.A. Kolve.
Asheville: Pegasus Press, University of North Carolina, 2001. Large 8vo., pp.xvii,650, pictorial black cloth, gilt, colour and b/w plates; light curving to boards, internally fresh, overall a very good copy indeed.
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STEPHEN HAWES
Twayne’s English Authors Series 354
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983. Small 8vo., pp.(ix),128, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title, slight sunning to spine, a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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STUDIES IN MIDDLE ENGLISH SAINTS' LEGENDS.
Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1998. Large 8vo., pp.(vi),173, paperback, b/w figures; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription, a very good copy.
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STUDIES IN THE AGE OF GOWER.
A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020. 8vo., pp.xiv,260, pictorial hardcover, 9 b/w illustrations; a fine copy.
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THE ABINGDON APOCALYPSE. (British Library, Add. 24555)
St. Peter’s College, Oxford: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2017. 8vo., pp.xvi,168, green hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece; a fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE AMBIGUITIES IN LANGLAND’S RAT’S PARLIAMENT.
Mediaeval Studies Volume XXIII.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Offprint, author’s presentation copy, 8vo., pp.216-239, original printed wrappers; a very good copy.
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THE BATTLE OF MALDON: TOGETHER WITH THE HOMECOMING OF BEORHTNOTH.
HarperCollins, 2023. Deluxe Collector’s edition, 8vo., pictorial hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, ribbon bookmark; mint copy, housed in matching slipcase, and still in shrinkwrap. Includes a digitally remastered recording of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth read by J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien, available on CD for the first time.
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THE BIRGITTINES OF SYON ABBEY. Preaching and Print. Texts and Transitions, 11.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 8vo., pp.xxii,345, pictorial hardcover; a fine copy.
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THE BOOK OF MEMORY:
A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.xiv,393, brown hardcover, gilt bordered in red, 30 b/w plates; two small pen markings to margins, corners of boards lightly bruised, internally fresh, a very good+ copy with very good dust-jacket that is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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THE BOOK OF THE LOVE-SMITTEN HEART.
New York/London: Routledge, 2001. Large 8vo., pp.lviii,283, red cloth, 16 colour plates; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with co-editor’s dedication inscription to front free endpaper, light partial sunning to cloth, with barcode sticker to rear board, light bowing to boards, internally fresh, overall a very good copy.
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THE BOOK OF THE LOVER AND THE BELOVED. Lo Libre de Amich e Amat; Librum Amici et Amati. An English Translation with Latin and Old Catalan Versions Transcribed from Original Manuscripts.
Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1995. 8vo., pp.xxxiii,141, yellow hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 3 further illustrations; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
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THE BOOK OF THE SETTLEMENT OF ICELAND.
Kendal: T. Wilson, 1898. 8vo., pp.xxxi,243,(i), paper wrappers; rubbing and toning to wrappers, a little chipping to wrappers, light foxing/creasing to preliminary and ultimate leaves, internally clean and very good, a good+ copy.
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THE BUREAUCRATIC MUSE.
Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England.
Pennsylvania State University Press. 8vo., pp.x,210, black cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE DEIDIS OF ARMORIE. A Heraldic Treatise and Bestiary. [In Two Volumes] Scottish Text Society, Fourth Series 22 and 23.
Edinburgh: The Scottish Text Society, 1994. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.cxxi,88;89-285, green cloth, gilt, 4 colour plates and one b/w plate; a fine set in mylar jackets.
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THE DOME OF URYNE. A Reading Edition of Nine Middle English Uroscopies.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 8vo., pp.cxxix,136, brown cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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