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THE ECLOGUES OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY.
Early English Text Society Original Series No.175.
Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1960. Reprint, 8vo., pp.lxv272, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; foxing to top and fore-edges, else clean and very good indeed.
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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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English Writers of the Late Middle Ages: SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE.
Authors of the Middle Ages, I.
Aldershot: Variorum, 1993. 8vo., pp.(iv),60, paperback; slight creasing to wrappers, a clean and good+ copy.
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THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM.
Oxford: published by the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xcix,224, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; slight foxing to top edges, else fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE GESTS OF KING ALEXANDER OF MACEDON.
Two Middle-English Alliterative Fragments, Alexander A and Alexander B. Edited with the Latin Sources Parallel (Orosius and the Historia De Preliis, J-Recension), With Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929. 8vo., pp.xi,261, claret cloth, gilt, 2 b/w plates; very minimal pencilling within, and lightly pencilled notes to rear endpapers, extremities rubbed, a very good copy.
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THE PIERS PLOWMAN GLOSSARY: WILL'S VISIONS OF PIERS PLOWMAN, DO-WELL, DO-BETTER AND DO-BEST.
A GLOSSARY OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY OF THE A, B AND C VERSIONS AS PRESENTED IN THE ATHLONE EDITIONS.
London: Continuum, 2005. 8vo.,pp. xiii,240, green printed hardcover, white lettering; light toning to margins, light sunning to spine, small indentation marks along front hinge, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE MEDIEVAL PROFESSIONAL READER AT WORK: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower.
Victoria: University of Victoria, 2001. 8vo.,pp. 239, paperback, b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to half title page, rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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THE MAKING OF MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1765-1910.
Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xxxvii,231, black hardcover lettered in white; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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GESTURES AND LOOKS IN MEDIEVAL NARRATIVE.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.xi,200, black hardcover, gilt; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s inscription to front free endpaper, a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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ROBERT THORNTON AND HIS BOOKS.
Essays on Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts.
York: The University of York, York Medieval Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.xii,310, pictorial hardcover; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with editor’s inscription to front free endpaper, upper corners of boards lightly bumped, else fresh and near-fine.
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MAKERS AND USERS OF MEDIEVAL BOOKS.
Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014. 8vo., pp.xvi,258, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; a fine copy.
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THE FAMOUS CRONYCLE OF THE WARRE WHICH THE ROMAYNS HAD AGAINST IUGURTH, USURPER OF THE KYNGDOME OF NUMIDY.
Alexander Barclay’s Translation of Sallust’s Bellum Iugurthinum. Early English Text Society O.S. 344.
Published for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.lxxxix,361, b/w frontispiece and 2 further plates; fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE CLERICAL PROLETARIAT AND THE RESURGENCE OF MEDIEVAL ENGLISH POETRY.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 8vo., pp.xx,388, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations ; a fine, fresh copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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MANUSCRIPTS AND READERS IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND.
The Literary Implications of Manuscript Study. Essays from the 1981 Conference at the University of York.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. 8vo., pp.(v),146, blue hardcover lettered in silver, 10 b/w plates; light toning to margins, a very good copy, in good(+) unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to margins and lightly worn to edges, with 1cm closed tear to head of front fold.
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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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MEDIEVAL ENGLISH STUDIES PRESENTED TO GEORGE KANE.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1988. 8vo.,pp. xviii,327, hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has a small closed tear to head of spine and to rear upper margin, with a very light stain to front.
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LANGLAND, THE MYSTICS AND THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH RELIGIOUS TRADITION.
Essays in Honour of S.S. Hussey.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990. 8vo.,pp. xii,289, hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light toning to endpapers, a very goo copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, light rubbing to extremities, with two small closed tears to rear.
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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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A MIDDLE ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM PETRARCH’S SECRETUM.
Early English Text Society O.S. 351.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 8vo., pp.lxviii,96, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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MANUSCRIPT AND PRINT IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN BRITAIN.
Essays in Honour of Professor Julia Boffey.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2019. 8vo., pp.xii,291, pictorial hardcover; fine.
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