Edited by: FEIN, Susanna; JOHNSTON, Michael.

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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Book number: 34936

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: BIBLIOGRAPHY

Edited by: PHILLIPS, Helen; PEARSALL, Derek; GRAY, Douglas; et al.

Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 8vo., pp.197, black hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; light toning to margins, an otherwise fine copy, in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.

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Book number: 36087

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: Folklore

Edited by SKEAT, Rev. Walter W.

The Romans of Partenay, or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known As the Tale of Melusine: Translated from the French of la Coudrette (About 1500-1520 A.D. ). Early English Text Society, Original Series, No. 22.

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & CO, 1899. 8vo., pp.xx,287, uncut, paperback (printed wrappers); ink mark struck through the advertisements to rear wrapper and front wrapper verso, internally fresh, with shelf-wear to extremities of wrappers, a good copy.

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Book number: 38075

Catalogue: LITERATURE

[CHAUCER.] Edited by POLLAND, Alfred W.

Shakespeare Head Press Chaucer. [Set of Eight Volumes: ] Volumes I. -III. The Canterbury Tales; Volume IV. The Parson&Rsquo;S Tale and Minor Poems; Volume V. Boece de Consolac: Philosophie; Volume VI. Troilus and Criseyde; Volume VII. The House of Fame and Minor Poems; Volume VIII. The Romaunt of the Rose

Oxford: printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, and published by Basil Blackwell, 1928-1929. Limited edition, no.216 of 375 copies, complete set of eight volumes, 4to., pp.(iv),224;(iv),213;(iv),201;(iv),217;(iv),177;(iv),301;(iv),250;(iv),252; linen-backed with printed paper title-labels, blue paper-covered boards, titles in red and black, with lettering for titles and headings designed by Joscelyne V. Gaskin, hand-coloured marginal illustrations to The Canterbury Tales, hand-coloured plate and further vignettes to Troilus and Criseyde, spare title labels bound in; just mildly ex library, with (not unattractive) bookplate to all front paste-down endpapers, and small blindstamp to foot of title pages, labels toned, with a little light loss to labels for volumes I and VIII, some light wear to cloth at extremities, overall a very good, internally fresh set.

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Book number: 33216

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: Illustrated

Edited by, FELLOWS, Jennifer.

Sir Bevis of Hampton. Two Volumes. Edited from Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, Ms XIII. B. 29 and Cambridge, University Library, Ms Ff. 2. 38.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017. Two volumes, 8vo., pp. xciii,231;232-493; brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece to both volumes; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jackets.

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Book number: 36123

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Edited by: YEAGER, Robert F.; MORSE, Charlotte C.

Speaking Images. Essays in Honour of V.A. Kolve.

Asheville: Pegasus Press, University of North Carolina, n.d. (2001). Large 8vo., pp.xvii,650, pictorial black cloth, gilt, colour and b/w plates; light curving to boards, internally fresh, overall a very good copy indeed.

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Book number: 35980

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Edited by: CHEWNING, Susannah Mary.

Studies in the Age of Gower. A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager.

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020. 8vo., pp.xiv,260, pictorial hardcover, 9 b/w illustrations; a fine copy.

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Book number: 35991

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Edited by: SMITHERS, Leonard C.

The Transmigrations of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam (Chinese Tales).

London: H.S. Nichols, 1894. Limited edition of 680 copies, royal 8vo., pp.viii,252,(xviii)adverts, uncut, pictorial black cloth, gilt, t.e.g.; light rubbing to extremities, slight foxing to prelims, overall bright and very good indeed.

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Book number: 34351

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Edited by, ROTHWELL, William.

Walter de Bibbesworth: Le Tretiz. From Ms. G (Cambridge University Library Gg. 1. 1) and Ms. T (Trinity College, Cambridge 0.2. 21). Together with Two Anglo-French Poems in Praise of Women (British Library, M.S. Additional 46919).

Aberystwyth: The Anglo-Norman Online Hub, 2009. 8vo., pp.ix,109, paperback; fine.

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Book number: 31482

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Edited by, FAULKNER, Peter and PRESTON, Peter.

William Morris. Centenary Essays.

University of Exeter Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xi,298, green hardcover, gilt, 8 colour plates, 19 b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a near-fine pictorial dust-jacket.

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Book number: 37941

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: Art History

Edited by: COLE, Richard C., with Peter S. Baker and Rachel McClellan, and with the assistance of James J. Caudle.

The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, Research Edition. Correspondence, Volume Five: The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769. Volume I. : 1766-1767.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1993. First Edition, 8vo., pp.xlvi,282, black hardcover, gilt; inkstamped ownership bookplate to front free endpaper, upper corners of boards lightly bumped, else clean and very good, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.

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Book number: 32589

Catalogue: LITERATURE

EDLICH-MUTH, Miriam.

Malory and His European Contemporaries. Adapting Late Arthurian Romance Collections.

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014. 8vo., pp.ix,186, pictorial hardcover; a fine, fresh copy. (No dust-jacket).

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Book number: 34098

Catalogue: LITERATURE

EDWARDS, A.S.G.

Stephen Hawes Twayne&Rsquo;S English Authors Series 354

Boston Twayne Publishers 1983 Small 8vo., pp.(ix),128, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title, slight sunning to spine, a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.

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Book number: 37974

Catalogue: LITERATURE

EGERER, J.W.

A Bibliography of Robert Burns.

Edinburgh/London: Oliver and Boyd, 1964. 8vo., pp.xiii,396, teal cloth with stamped title-band, gilt; internally clean and very good, with dampstaining to boards, in unclipped dust-jacket which shows surface soil to pale paper, a good+ copy.

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Book number: 36414

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Keywords: Poetry

ELIASON, Norman E.

The Pyle and Scop in Beowulf. An Offprint from Speculum, a Journal of Mediaeval Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, April 1963.

Cambridge, Mass.: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1963. 8vo., pp.267-284, grey printed wrappers; inscription to front wrapper, very good.

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Book number: 25938

Catalogue: LITERATURE