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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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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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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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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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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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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 plates; 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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THE LEGEND OF BRYNHILD.
Islandica XLIII.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. First edition, 8vo., pp.270, blue cloth, gilt; small ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers and edges, a good+ copy in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned and lightly rubbed to edges.
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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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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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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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