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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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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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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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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 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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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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