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First and only edition of this imortant collection of short medieval narrative poems in French, English, and Latin, which are printed here for the first time. Among the three French fabliaux is "Le meunier et deus Clers" ("The Miller and Two Clerks") which was an important source for Chaucer. Edition limited to 250 copies. 8vo. Bound in recent attractive cloth. Half-title and errata leaf somewhat discolored (surely because of contact with inferior materials in a previous binding), else fine and bright. Very rare outside institutional collections.
1st Edition VG in red cloth. School stamp.8794. eng
pp. 227, cm 25x17, brossura, con dedica dell'autore, mancante della prima di copertina e parte del dorso, da rilegare.
Mm 160x210 Collana "Biblioteca di Cultura Storica" - Volume rilegato in tela, sovraccoperta con restauri senza perdite al piede e alla testa del dorso, xiii-565 pagine con figure in nero su tavole non comprese nel testo. Buona copia con legature ben salde; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Minor shelfwear. ; 1 x 9.25 x 6 Inches; 270 pages; Professor Shinsuke Ando, of the University of Keio, is among the most distinguished scholars of medieval and Renaissance English literature. To celebrate his sixtieth birthday, friends and colleagues from around the world have contributed to this collection of essays on topics of special interest to him, including Chaucer, Gower, Malory, medieval romance, sixteenth-century drama, Sidney, and Shakespeare. The Western European and US contributors are: LORD BUTTERFIELD, THWAITE, BREWER, HARDY, KERRIGAN, FICHTE, MROCZKOWSKI, HAAS, AXTON, AHRENS, SPEARING, BURROW, MORSE, BEADLE, BLAKE, WINDEATT. The Japanese contributors are: FUJII, IWASAKI, NOGUCHI, NOJIMA, OIZUMI, TAKADA, TAKAHASHI, TAKAMIYA, UENO, KAWACHI.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and numerous plates; blue cloth, gilt backs, blue tops, navy endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case blocked and lettered in gilt.
The history of the Valentine card. 144 pages. Book is accompanied by an amount of ephemera on the subject collected by a previous owner. Dust jacket with extensive and horrible tape repair to tears around the edges.
The history of the Valentine card. Blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket with some small tears around the edges.
pp. viii, 298, (2) [Publisher's catalogue]. 8vo. 200mm. Original full purple cloth binding lettered in gold gilt. Extremities very slightly rubbed. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. Chaucer scholar Robert Kilburn Root (1877-1950), first came to Princeton in the spring of 1905, and stayed until his death. POETRY BX 3
Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Sections include: Job, The Mahabharata, The Kalevala, Sappho, Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Euripides, Plato, The trial and death of Socrates, The Republic, Lucretius, Chaucer, Tu Fu, Poems, Ben Jonson, Folpone, Casanova, History of my life, Walt Whitman, Tolstoy, Rimbaud, etc.
Mm 120x190 Brossura editoriale di pagine 357, sovracoperta editoriale con abrasione al retro. Seconda edizione. Opera in buone condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Mm 160x215 Collana "La civiltà europea". Volume nella sua brossura originale con alette, 427 pagine con numerose tavole in nero fuori testo. Opera in buone condizioni. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
xv + 127pp.+ 48 plates out of text (facsimile reproduction of the manuscript), 25cm., text in English, in the series "Rijksuniversiteit te Gent. Werken uitgegeven door de faculteit van de wijsbegeerte en letteren" volume 89, very good condition, posthumous publication of Pintelon's study, W98490
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. ; 0.55 x 8.5 x 5.59 Inches; 126 pages; This book examines "Troilus and Criseyde" and "The Knight's Tale" as poems which work the same plot to contrasting tragic and joyous endings but for the same purpose, of exploring the folly of electing the temporal world over the eternal. It demonstrates that the tragedy of "Troilus and Criseyde" is a consequence of the folly of relying on Fortune and temporal bliss and works through the pattern of a similar dependence in "The Knight's Tale." It then develops the portrayal of the protagonists of the poems as Fortune's Fools through a scrutiny of courtship as game of play, of "caritas" and "cupiditas" contrasted with the implications of pity, mercy, grace, and love as used in temporal contexts in the poem but defined theologically elsewhere in Chaucer, and of the limitations of knighthood and chivalry as defined by the world of the poems.
The development of the English sentence from Caxton to Johnson. 242 pages. Index. Blue buckram covers, gilt title on spine. Scratch to back of dust jacket, also an indentation to dust jacket and back cover. Several marks on page fore-edges.
136p. Bold full page woodcuts printed in red. 8vo. Original vellumized backed paper boards. Spine soiled. Number 206 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies privately printed for Subscribers. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! EROS1
pp. xi, 442. Double column. Large 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, gold lettered spine. Front board slightly dust spotted. Hardbound. POETRY2 BOX 1
Undated, 12mo, 375 pages, not illustrated. Covers detached.With memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas. (The Aldine edition of the British poets). Original Green Decorated Cloth eng
Dustjacket has a few open and closed tears and pieces missing. Majority of DJ is intact. Please ask for a photo. ; From the early English Ballads through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Marlow's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Shylock the Jew has been a frequent literary subject -- generally as archvillain. In this impassioned and eloquent yet scholarly and incisive critique of early English literature the author has set out to prove that the always contemptuous characterization of the Jew was never based on observation but it was simply taken over from the New Testament. Through the careful analysis of the many surviving literary creations of the period and in the light of the history of the Jews in England before the expulsion, the author concludes that the Jew has been misrepresented and vilified on account of intolerance and fanaticism or because the artists knew no better. ; 175 pages
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 197 pages. Contents include: Role of the pilgrim, Shape of performance, Substance of the game, Social base of angry speech in Chaucer's London, Insult strategies fo the pilgrims, License to lie: the Churls' rhetoric of fiction, Gentil folk: back to court
Light soiling to wraps. ; Toronto Medieval Bibliographies, No 10; 8.75 x 1 x 5.75 Inches; 322 pages
Very faint shelfwear. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 213 pages
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, neat contemporary initials on front free endpaper verso; handsomely bound in mid-nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards with double gilt rules at back and corners, back ruled in gilt to form six compartments, second compartment with leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt to a floral spray pattern, speckled edges, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean and most attractive copy. With the errata leaf following Contents as is proper, and the fine nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of William Henderson and later nineteenth-century trade ticket of W&B Norton of Cheltenham on front paste-down. Bright, crisp copy of the first collected edition of the poetry of James I (1394-1437) which includes THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF 'THE KINGIS QUAIR'. Usually ascribed to the year 1423, James I's masterpiece 'The Kingis Quair' is a vivid love-dream allegory composed in Early Scots and marks the outset of the golden age of Scottish literature. Often referred to as the first 'Scottish Chaucerian' poem, it acknowledges the influence of the author of 'Canterbury Tales'. The work is transcribed from the only known MS (Bodleian Arch. Selden, B.24, foll.192-211) which itself is dated to 1488 or shortly after.The volume also contains the poem Christ's Kirk of the Green, [the editor's] Dissertation on the Life and Writings of King James I, and the Dissertation on Scottish Music. The editor, William Tytler, was the father of Lord Woodhouslee. SCARCE. NCBEL I, p.256.
Twaynels English Authors Series #1. 219p, bibliography,index Neat,crisp tight copy. Small school library stamps - otherwise looks unread. Book
40p. Numerous illustrations. Small folio. Original green cloth binding. XLib. REF9
