Author: RABY, F.J.E.
Title: A History of Christian-Latin Poetry from the Beginnings to the Close of the Middle Ages
Description: London, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1927. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering and rules, dust jacket. xii, 491pp. Near fine/very good. Rarely-seen jacket is rather age toned (more so at spine), but with only minor edgewear; 1951 ownership signature on front pastedown. Superb first edition of this seminal study by the noted historian and Latinist (1888-1966) -- this his first book and the 1934 "A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages" established medieval Latin poetry as a legitimate field of study. A superb first in the ultra-scarce dust jacket. .
Keywords: Literary Criticism
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Title: A History of Christian-Latin Poetry from the Beginnings to the Close of the Middle Ages
Description: London, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1927. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering and rules, dust jacket. xii, 491pp. Near fine/very good. Rarely-seen jacket is rather age toned (more so at spine), but with only minor edgewear; 1951 ownership signature on front pastedown. Superb first edition of this seminal study by the noted historian and Latinist (1888-1966) -- this his first book and the 1934 "A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages" established medieval Latin poetry as a legitimate field of study. A superb first in the ultra-scarce dust jacket. .
Keywords: Literary Criticism
Price: US$ 175.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50835
- Book number: 50835
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