Lewis, D.B. Wyndham — Ronsard

London, Sheed & Ward, 1946. Third Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and for a time, definitive study of the influential French Renaissance poet Ronsard. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing minor wear beyond a short closed tear to top rear panel, not price-clipped. Fine black-and-white frontis portrait of Renaissance ballet, and plentiful additional black-and-white photographs and facsimiles, including of the death mask of Mary, Queen of Scots. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.xi + 339 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,