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ABSENT NARRATIVES, MANUSCRIPT TEXTUALITY, AND LITERARY STRUCTURE IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 8vo., pp.xix,284, green hardcover lettered in silver; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title, a fresh and near-fine copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to front inner margin, otherwise fine.
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FROM AUTHOR TO AUDIENCE. John Capgrave and Medieval Publication.
University College Dublin Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.xvii,333, blue hardcover, gilt, 20 b/w plates; a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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MEDIEVAL IMAGES, ICONS, AND ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH LITERARY TEXTS, From the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. 8vo., pp.xxv,236, maroon hardcover, gilt, 76 b/w plates; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title, a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE BIRGITTINES OF SYON ABBEY. Preaching and Print. Texts and Transitions, 11.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 8vo., pp.xxii,345, pictorial hardcover; a fine copy.
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ALCHEMY, MEDICINE, AND COMMERCIAL BOOK PRODUCTION. A Codicological and Linguistic Study of the Voigts-Sloane Manuscript Group. Texts and Transitions, 9.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 8vo., pp.xv,248, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS IN TRANSITION.
A Festschrift dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on his 70th birthday.
York Medieval Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.xix,335, pictorial hardcover, colour and b/w illustrations; a fine copy.
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CHAUCER'S PHILOSOPHICAL VISIONS.
Chaucer Studies XXVII.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. 8vo., pp.viii,178, brown hardcover with printed paper label to front board, gilt; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, slight sunning to spine/front upper margin, bump to upper edge of front board, else a very good, fresh copy.
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BLANQUERNA: A THIRTEENTH CENTURY ROMANCE.
London: Jarrolds, 1926. Tall 8vo., pp.536, backed in cream linen, gilt, marbled boards; light foxing to prelims, foxing to fore-edges, rubbing and light wear to paper covering at extremities of boards, internally fresh, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has 3cm closed tear and creasing to front lower margin, and two further small closed tears to extremities, else very good.
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VOICES AGAINST SILENCE: JULIAN OF NORWICH AND MARGERY KEMPE.
A Feminist Approach to Language.
Poznan: Motivez, 1996. 8vo., pp.194, paperback; lightly sunned to spine/margins of rear wrapper, a very good, clean copy.
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THE MEDIEVAL DRAGON.
The Nature of the Beast in Germanic Literature.
Enfield Lock: Hisarlik Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.viii,151, navy hardcover, gilt; owner’s catalogue no.s to upper margin of front free endpaper, a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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ROBERT THORNTON AND HIS BOOKS.
Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts.
York/Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, in association with The Boydell Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.xii,310, pictorial hardcover, 27 b/w figures; a fine, fresh copy.
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NEW DIRECTIONS IN LATER MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT STUDIES. Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference.
York/Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, in association with The Boydell Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.xv,213, red hardcover lettered in silver, with printed paper label to front board, b/w plates; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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SHEBA’S DAUGHTERS.
Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Women in Medieval French Epic.
New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1998. 8vo., pp.xxxvii,253, quarter grey cloth, gilt, pictorial paper-covered boards, b/w frontispiece; internally fresh, slight scoring to rear board, a very good copy indeed.
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HEROES AND SARACENS
An Interpretation of the Chansons de Geste
Edinburgh University Press, 1984. First edition, 8vo., pp.349, brown cloth, gilt; a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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OLDER SCOTS LITERATURE.
Edinburgh: John Donald, 2005. 8vo., pp.xiv,641, paperback; small ownership autograph to half title, else near-fine.
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ROMANCING THE PAST. The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France.
Berkeley/London: University of California Press. 8vo., pp.xiii,422,paperback, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy.
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CHAUCERIAN POLITY: ABSOLUTIST LINEAGES AND ASSOCIATIONAL FORMS IN ENGLAND AND ITALY.
Stanford University Press. First edition, 8vo., pp.xix,555, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE PERFECT AGE OF MAN’S LIFE.
Cambridge University Press. 8vo.,pp. xiii,175, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has light creasing to extremities and two adhesive marks to rear where labels have been removed.
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THE BUREAUCRATIC MUSE.
Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England.
Pennsylvania State University Press. 8vo., pp.x,210, black cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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CHAUCER’S PARDONER’S PROLOGUE AND TALE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1900 TO 1995.
Toronto/Buffalo/London: University of Toronto Press, 1900. First edition, 8vo., pp.445, red cloth; gilt illustration on front cover; owner’s very small ink inscription to half-title page, o/w a fine copy.
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