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STRANGE LIKENESS. The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 8vo.,pp. viii,266, hardcover, gilt; pencilling throughout, front free endpaper marked as damages with ownership doodle surrounding ink stamp, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly worn to corners, overall a very good working copy.
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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 ANGLO-SAXON CHANCERY. The History, Language and Production of Anglo-Saxon Charters from Alfred to Edgar.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2015. 8vo.,pp. xvi,234, printed hardcover, b/w tables; a fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GERALD OF WALES.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005. 8vo.,pp. 373, paperback, b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy.
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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 AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITAIN, c.500- 1050. A Study in Written and Visual Literacy and Orality. The Sanders Lectures in Bibliography, Cambridge University Library, 2009.
London: The British Library, 2011. 8vo.,pp. 184,hardcover, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE BOOK OF MAGUARAN Leabhar Meig Shamhradhain.
Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1947. 8vo., pp. xxvi,470, hardcover, gilt; lightly toned, initial leaves coming slightly from binding, rubbing to fore-edge of text block, corners of boards lightly bumped, else a good+ copy, no dust-jacket.
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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 CANTEBURY TALES.
Folkestone: Wm. Dawson & SOns, Ltd, 1979. Facsimile, 4to., pp.liii,1024, olive cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w plates; 2 small closed tears to lower left corner of front free endpaper, light foxing to edges of text block, spine slightly rolled, slight bruising to extremities which are lightly rubbed, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE CORNISH LANGUAGE AND ITS LITERATURE.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974. 8vo.,pp. ix,230, paperback, b/w illustrations; light toning to margins, light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy.
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THE CRAFT OF DYING: A STUDY IN THE LITERARY TRADITION OF THE ARS MORIENDI IN ENGLAND. Yale Studies in English, 175.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1970. 8vo., pp.xii,299, brown cloth, gilt neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, light sunning to spine, a very good, internally fresh copy.
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THE CYNFEIRDD. Early Welsh Poets and Poetry.
University of Wales Press, 1981. 8vo., pp.135, paperback, b/w frontispiece; lightly shelf-worn with slight soiling to rear, a very good copy.
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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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THE EGERTON VERSION OF MANDEVILLE'S TRAVELS.
Early English Text Society, No. 336.
Oxford University Press, 2010. 8vo., pp.xxx,230, brown cloth, gilt, two colour frontispieces; a fine copy, in a fine and fresh unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE ELLESMERE CHAUCER ESSAYS IN INTERPRETATION
San Marino: Huntington Library, 1995. 4to., pp.xvi, 363, hardcover, navy lettering, b/w illustrations, fold out colour illustration to front; a fine copy, no dust-jacket.
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THE ENGLISH POEMS OF CHARLES OF ORLEANS.
Published for The Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1970. Reprinted with Bibliographical supplement, 8vo., pp.xliii,308, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light sunning to upper margin of rear board, a fresh and otherwise near-fine copy.
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THE EVOLUTION OF ARTHURIAN ROMANCE.
The Verse Tradition from Chretien to Froissart.
Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xlix,321, brown hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front pate-down endpaper (covered by dust-jacket), a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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