Author: TOLKIEN, J.R.R., and GORDON, E.V. (editors)
Title: Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Description: London, Oxford University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxvii, 211pp. Frontispiece, illustration. Very good. Mildly edgeworn but tight-hinged, clean and nice. Superb scholarly edition of the anonymous 14th century Middle English chivalric romance -- this edition first published in 1925 and here "Reprinted with corrections." From the collection of Frank S. Hanlin (1924-82, bibliographer and University of Iowa special collections director), with his 1950 ownership signature on front pastedown and his miniscule, neat and fastidious blue-pencilled and red-pencilled margin comments, underlinings, checkmarks and such here and there throughout. An interesting, well-loved copy. .

Keywords: British Literature


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