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THE COMMONPLACE BOOK OF ROBERT REYNES OF ACLE.
An Edition of Tanner MS 407.
London: Garland Publishing, 1980. 8vo., pp.xxx,604, rust hardcover, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste-down, internally clean, slight roll to spine, a little rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy, no dust-jacket.
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OLD NORSE-ICELANDIC LITERATURE: A SHORT INTRODUCTION.
Padstow, Cornwall: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 8vo.,pp. ix, 241, paperback, b/w illustrations, slight creasing to upper right edge of cover, otherwise a very good, clean copy.
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BEOWULF. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Unique Manuscript British Museum MS. Cotton Vitellius A. XV. Second edition, containing a new reproduction of the manuscript.
Early English Text Society, No.245.
Early English Text Society/OUP, 1967. Reprint of the second edition, 8vo, pp.xxi,145, interleaved with facsimile plates of the MS., brown cloth, gilt, gilt; neat ownership autographs to front free endpaper and title, light partial sunning to front board, light crease to spine, a very good copy.
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A HISTORY OF ANGLO-LATIN LITERATURE 1066-1422.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 8vo.,pp. xviii,414, hardcover, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpapers, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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BLUE IN OLD ENGLISH. An Interdisciplinary Semantic Study. Costerus New Series 110.
Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1997. 8vo., pp.333, paperback; slight shelfwear, a very good, fresh 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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PROENSA. An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry,
Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1978. 8vo., pp.xxiv,325, red cloth lettered in black; foxing to edges and lightly, to endpapers, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
A Festschrift for Peter Dronke.
Leiden: Brill, 2001. 8vo., pp.392,(ii), blue cloth, gilt; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, editor’s autograph to title, a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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LYDGATE AND BURGH'S SECREES OF OLD PHILOSOFFRES.
A Version of The ‘Secreta Secretorum’. Edited from the Sloane MS. 2464.
London: Early English Text Society/Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1894. First edition, 8vo., pp.10,xxxiv,121, uncut and partially unopened, lilac paper wrappers; wear to wrappers, an otherwise very good, fresh 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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CONCEPTUALIZING MULTILINGUALISM IN ENGLAND, c.800-c.1250.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. 8vo., pp.xi,368,(ii), pictorial hardcover; pencilling to Introduction, else near-fine.
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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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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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AN ANONYMOUS SHORT ENGLISH METRICAL CHRONICLE.
London: The Early English Text Society, by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1935. 8vo.,pp. cxxxvi,163, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light toning to margins, light foxing to edges of text block, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE LYFE OF SIR THOMAS MOORE, KNIGHTE,
Written by William Roper, Esquire, which married Margreat, daughter of the sayed Thomas Moore.
Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co, 1978. Facsimile reprint of the 1958 Early English Text Society edition, 8vo, pp.142, brown cloth, gilt; pale foxing to endpapers and edges, light bloom to cloth, else very good. No dust-jacket.
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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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ON FARTING.
Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 8vo., pp.xiii,239, black cloth lettered in silver; fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE ROMANS OF PARTENAY,
Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as The Tale of Melusine: Translated from the French of La Coudrette (about 1500-1520 A.D.). Early English Text Society, Original Series, No.22.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & CO, 1899. 8vo., pp.xx,287, uncut, paperback (printed wrappers); ink mark struck through the advertisements to rear wrapper and front wrapper verso, internally fresh, with shelf-wear to extremities of wrappers, a good copy.
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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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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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