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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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ANCRENE WISSE.
A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402 With Variants from Other Manuscripts. Volumes I and II.
Oxford University Press, 2005. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.lxxiv,254;lvii,477, brown cloth, gilt; both fresh and fine copies, in fine unclipped dust-jackets.
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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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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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RICHARD ROLLE: Prose and Verse.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. 8vo.,pp. xcvi,270, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light toning to margins, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A FACSIMILE OF BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD, MS DOUCE 104.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1992. 8vo., pp.xciv,unpaginated facsimile, green cloth, black title band and gilt lettering to spine, colour plates, b/w figures and facsimile; lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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CHAUCER AND THE MAKING OF OPTICAL SPACE.
Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. 8vo.,pp. 377, paperback, b/w figures; a near-fine copy.
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LITERATE LAUGHTER.
Critical Essays in Medieval Narrative and Poetry.
Peter Lang, 1974. 8vo., pp.246, paperback; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with editor’s presentation inscription to half title,
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