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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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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, 1983. 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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TRANSFORMING TALK.
The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England.
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.x,238, black cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece/pictorial title, b/w plates; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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ICONOGRAPHY AND THE PROFESSIONAL READER.
The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman. Medieval Cultures Volume 15.
Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xviii,268, black hardcover lettered in white; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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DESIRE IN THE CANTERBURY TALES.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015. 8vo., pp.x,225, pictorial hardcover; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title page, just slight roll to spine, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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ENGLISH POETS IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES:
Chaucer, Langland and Others.
Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. 8vo., pp.xii,342, teal cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, very slight toning to margins, barcode sticker to rear board, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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MEDIEVAL ALLITERATIVE POETRY.
Essays in Honour of Thorlac Turville-Petre.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. 8vo., pp.229, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w frontispiece; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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LITERARY CHARACTER:
The Human Figure in Early English Writing.
Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xii,263, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; from the library of Derek Pearsall with author’s inscription on half-title, internally clean and fresh, a near-fine copy with a near-fine dust-jacket.
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LEGENDYS OF HOOLY WUMMEN.
Early English Text Society, Original Series, No. 26 - 1938 (for 1936).
Woodbridge: Boydell, 1997. Reprint, 8vo., pp.lxxx,322, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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BOOKS UNDER SUSPICION.
Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England.
Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 8vo., pp.lii,562, hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, light bruising to extremities, else fresh and very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has light creasing to extremities.
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KYNG ALISAUNDER. [In Two Volumes:]
Vol. I. Text; Volume II. Introduction, Commentary and Glossary. Early English Text Society No.s 227 and 237.
London: Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1961. Two volumes, reprinted, 8vo., pp.xx,445;(v),217, brown cloth, gilt, b/w facsimile frontispiece and plate to Volume I; very good indeed. No dust-jackets.
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THE EXPLOITATIONS OF MEDIEVAL ROMANCE.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2010. 8vo., pp.x,191, pictorial hardcover; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with presentation inscription from Laura Ashe, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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PIERS PLOWMAN: The B-Version Archetype (Bx).
Raleigh: Seenet, 2018. 8vo.,pp.xi,375, glazed blue hardcover, white lettering; inscribed by Thorlac Turville-Petre to front free endpaper, a very good, fresh copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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JOHN GOWER IN MANUSCRIPTS AND EARLY PRINTED BOOKS.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020. 8vo., pp.xvii,303, pictorial hardcover, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations; a fine, fresh copy.
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PREMODERN PLACES.
Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 8vo., pp.ix,342, black hardcover lettered in silver, 30 b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title, upper corners of boards lightly bumped, else a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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