Author: MARIE DE FRANCE
Title: Lays of Marie de France, and Other French Legends (Everyman's Library #557)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1954. Hardcover. A 1954 reprint of the 1911 issuance. Sixteen late 12th century romantic stories by Marie de France, about whom little is known, and likely by other, unknown, authors. A "lay" is a medieval poem, ballad or story. Translated from the French, and with an introduction, by Eugene Mason. An entry in Everyman's Library "Romance" series. E.L. no. 557. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full rose cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked "EL" at tail of spine; orange topstain. In orange dust jacket with 'Everyman's Library' surrounded by scrollwork to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy: bright, tightly-bound and clean, though with sticker removal evidence to front free endpaper and with infrequent pencilings near front of book and scattered through the text. Fair-only price-clipped jacket is quite brittle and with several tears and chips to extremities but remaining mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector. (NOTE: This work titled "French Mediaeval Romances" in other Everyman's Library editions.); 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xx, 217, [2] pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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