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THE GUDE AND GODLIE BALLATIS.
Scottish Text Society Fifth Series, 14.
Scottish Text Society, 2015. 8vo., pp.xi,413, green hardcover, gilt, with printed paper label to front board, b/w frontispiece; fine. No dust-jacket, as issued. (Loose plate for Volume 13 included)
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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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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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POETRY AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE PEASANT.
The Attitude to the Peasant in Late Medieval English Literature and in Contemporary Calendar Illustration. Anglica et Americana 19.
Copenhagen: Department of English, University of Copenhagen, 1983. 8vo., pp.103, paperback, b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to half title, a very good, clean copy.
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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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ANGLO-LATIN LITERATURE 900-1066.
London/Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xiv,506, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 6 further b/w illustrations; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is slightly sunned to spine, with undulations to paper at lower section of spine.
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ANGLO-LATIN LITERATURE 600-899.
London/Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xvi,534, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w illustrations, 2 b/w maps; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is slightly sunned to spine.
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THE LEGEND OF BRYNHILD.
Islandica XLIII.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. First edition, 8vo., pp.270, blue cloth, gilt; foxing to endpapers and edges, ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a good copy in lightly worn dust jacket.
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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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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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CHAUCERIAN POLITY: ABSOLUTIST LINEAGES AND ASSOCIATIONAL FORMS IN ENGLAND AND ITALY.
California: Stanford University Press, 1997. First edition, tall 8vo., pp.xix,555, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a fine copy, in vg+ (fine?) unclipped dust-jacket.
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CHAUCER'S LEGENDARY GOOD WOMEN.
Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xi,i,338, brown hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper (covered by dust-jacket), a near-fine copy in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly sunned to margins.
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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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CHAUCER AND WAR.
Lanham/New York/Oxford: University Press of America, 2000. 8vo., pp.xvi,259, black hardcover lettered in gilt; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, o/w near-fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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LYDGATE'S TEMPLE OF GLAS.
Early English Text Society Extra Series, 60.
Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1987. Reprint, 8vo., pp.clx,136, brown cloth, gilt; fine.
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LYDGATE'S RESON AND SENSUALLYTE.
Edited from Bodleian Ms. Fairfax 16 and British Museum Additional MS. 29729. In Two Volumes: Volume I. The Manuscripts, Text, and Glossary; Volume II. Studies and Notes.
London: for The Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1965. Two volumes, reprint, 8vo., pp.xx,203;ix,132, brown cloth, gilt; fine.
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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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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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THE LIFE OF ST. NORBERT BY JOHN CAPGRAVE, O.E.S.A. (1393-1464).
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1977. 8vo., pp.ix,179, paperback (red academic wrappers lettered in black), b/w frontispiece; sunning to spine and upper margins of wrappers, light toning within, else a very good, clean copy.
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