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Magistra Doctissima - Essays In Honour Of Bonnie Wheeler

Armstrong, Dorsey - Astell, Ann W - Chickering, Howell [editors] · 2013 · Eastleach Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo 2013 1st edition. Faux leather, dj, F/F. viii+273pp, 1pp colour & 1pp b/w plates, 15 b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. A collection of 19 essays : Part 1. Old And Middle English Literature. Kiyoko Nag…

Magistra Doctissima - Essays In Honour Of Bonnie Wheeler

Armstrong, Dorsey - Astell, Ann W - Chickering, Howell [editors] · 2013 · Eastleach Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo 2013 1st edition. Faux leather, dj, F/F. viii+273pp, 1pp colour & 1pp b/w plates, 15 b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. A collection of 19 essays : Part 1. Old And Middle English Literature. Kiyoko Nag…

Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate. To King Henry the VIIIth.

SKELTON (John): · 1736 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

London: Printed for C. Davis..., 1736. 12mo, 168 x 94 mms., pp. xiv, 294 [295 - 296 adverts], title leaf a cancel with visible stub, with ms. note in 18th century hand on recto of second front end-paper (leaf very soiled but readable), \"Lionelle Campbelle - 1756\" inscribed on…

Cassell&Apos;S Illustrated Shakespeare. The Plays of Shakespeare.

Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke · 1616 · Rooke Books

£780.00 (€935.09 | $1,030.66 | ¥164,603)

London, Petter and Galpin Cassell, c1875. Leather. The beautifully illustrated complete Plays of Shakespeare illustrated by Selous and edited by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. Volumes I - III, complete. The three volumes are seperated into Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Wil…

Canterbury Tales

Harriet Lee; Sophia Lee · 1803 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.78 | $2,510.59 | ¥400,956)

London, G. and J. Robinson, 1803-1805 . First edition. Leather. A scarce complete five volume set of Harriet Lee's magnum opus, the 'Canterbury Tales&apos. A mixed early edition set, including the first edition of the final volume. Present here are:The 1804 fourth edit…

The English Anthology

Joseph Ritson [ed.] · 1793 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, C. Clarke, for T. and J. Egerton, 1793-1794. First edition. Leather. The three volume first edition of English antiquary Joseph Ritson's anthology of English poetry. A three volume first edition anthology of English poetry, edited by the English antiquary Joseph Rit…

Scottish Manuscripts & English Manuscripts in Scotland. Fascicle I: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

Marlene Hennessy · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2022 Paperback, 182 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:50 col., Language: English. ISBN 9781915487018. Summary This is the tenth volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscr…

Crossing Boundaries. Issues of Cultural and Individual Identities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,

S. McKee (ed.); · 1999 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€49.90 ($55.00 | £41.62 | ¥8,784)

Turnhout, Brepols, 1999 Hardback, XII+283 p., 15 b/w ill., 2 b/w tables, + 2 music scores, 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503508184. The essays collected here cover a range of topics and periods, and have in common the concept of boundaries, which is defined according to discipline, an…

Sophologium.[Strasbourg, R-printer (Adolf Rusch), ca. 1468]. Folio (21 × 28.2 cm). With the text set in 35 lines in Roman type, spaces for initials show tiny guide letters, rubricated throughout, with 3- and 5-line blue or red Lombardic initials. 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco, with a triple-fillet frame on the boards and elaborate ornaments and a title-label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers and bluish flyleaves.

MAGNI, Jacobus [Jacques Legrand]. · 1470 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€75,000.00 ($82,665.52 | £62,560.88 | ¥13,202,194)

217 (of 218) ff. (lacking the final blank).Early undated Latin edition (the first, by the same anonymous printer, was produced around 1470) of the Sophologium of the French Augustinian preacher Jacques Legrand (1360-1415). This is a collection of moral maxims and wise passages f…

The Transatlantic Review, Volume 1, Number 1 (January 1924)

Ford, Ford Madox (Ford Madox Hueffer, editor.), Joseph Conrad, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Luke Ionides, A. E. Coppard, Jean Cassou. et al. · 1924 · Bookbarrow

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

Magazine/Periodical Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd. London, 1924. First Edition, Softcover. Good Condition. London edition of the first issue of this important and influential literary journal edited in Paris by Ford Madox Ford. Includes two early "Cantos" by Ezra Pound, four poems b…

The rusted hauberk: feudal ideas of order and their decline.

Purdon, Liam O. & Cindy L. Vitto (eds). · 1994 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Gainesville : University Press of Florida,1994. Orig. cloth binding. xxii,338p. Index. Condition : fine. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - The metaphor of the hauberk, a tunic of chain mail that rusts over time, shapes and unifies this inves…

Old England's Worthies: A Gallery of Portraits, from Authentic Copies, of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Lawyers, Warrior, Men of Letters and Science, and Artists of Our Country, Accompanied by Full and Original Biographies

Lord Brougham and other Distinguished Authors · 1880 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

James Sangster and Co. London, 1880. Early Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean dark red covers with blind decoration and gilt decoration and lettering on the front cover and on the spine, bevelled cover edges, gilt block edges, double column text. Inclu…

Dylan Thomas (Writers of Wales)

DAVIES, WALFORD · 1990 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

UK, University of Wales Press. 1990. (ISBN: 9780708310663). Paperback, 0.6 x 13.3 x 21 cm. Condition good, ref ZKVQ This is a short critical study analysing the achievement of Dylan Thomas against its Welsh cultural background, and at the same time giving an overview of his care…

Il Filocopo … Di nuovo riveduto, corretto, & alla sua vera lettione ridotto da M. Francesco Sansovino. ...Venice, [device of Domenico Giglio] (colophon: Francesco Rampazetto, 1554). Small 8vo (15 x 11 cm). With Giglio's woodcut device on the title-page, 6 woodcut decorated initials (3 series) plus 2 repeats. Set in Aldine-style italic types (with upright capitals) with incidental roman. Contemporary limp vellum.

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. · 1521 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)

“390” [= 380] ll.Second Sansovino edition of Boccaccio's first important work, Il Filocolo (here Filocopo), a prose romance written ca. 1334-1336, about twenty years before the Decameron. Boccaccio reworked the 12th-century French love story of Floire (Florio), muslim Prince of …

The Dearborn Independent - Chronicler of the Neglected Truth, August (Aug. ) 21, 1926 - the Women of Mexico Awake

BENSON, ALLAN L.; COLLINS, JOSEPH; WELLIVER, J.C.; BARTON, WILLIAM E.; CAMERON, CHARLES D.; FINGER, CHARLES J.; BOWYER, HELEN; MACDONALD, PAUL; BARKER, S. OMAR; HOWE, J. OLIN; FARIS, J.T. · 1926 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Dearborn, Michigan: The Dearborn Publishing Co, 1926. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Fitzgerald, W.O.; Honore, Paul;. 32 pages. Features: The Loneliest Man in New York - an intimate study of Frank A. Munsey by one of his former newspaper executives; Through…

Percy Society Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Age Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications

Various · 1842 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, Printed for the Percy Society, 1842-1849. Leather. Ninteen volumes of the Percy Society's reproductions of medieval poems and stories. Including: Volume VI (1842): Ancient Poetical Tracts of the Sixteenth Century, edited by E. F. Rimbault; Cock Lorell's Bote, e…

Piers Plowman the C-Text and Its Poet (1966), and, Medieval Literature and Antiquities Studies in Honour of Basil Cottle (1987).

E. Talbot Donaldson ; Niall Rudd et al., and, Myra Stokes and T. L. Burton [editors] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London ; Cambridge, Frank Cass and Company Ltd ; D. S. Brewer, 1966-1987. Hardback. These uncommon, fascinating works of twentieth-century Medieval literary criticism, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition, first impression of Medieval Literature and Antiqu…

[Auction Catalogues] The W. H. Bruton Collections. Catalogue of the very choice collections of printed books, autograph letters and book illustrations, also drawings by Thomas Rowlandson : the property of the late Henry William Bruton, Esq., Bewick House, Gloucester . . . including one of the finest known copies of The Pickwick Papers . . . very fine unpublished drawings . . . by Thomas Rowlandson . . . books illustrated by George Cruikshank . . . ; [with] frontispiece to Roland’s Comic Songs by Cruikshank; [and with] The Chignon, etching by Cruikshank.

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE [BRUTON, Henry William, 1843-1920] · 1921 · Fine Editions Ltd

$949.00 (€861.00 | £718.20 | ¥151,561)

London Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge Limited Edition Large Paper copies, each number 3 of 125 sets of which 60 were for sale, with printed prices and buyer’s names. Complete in two volumes (Printed Books and Old Engravings). Royal 8vo (277 x 182mm): [2],iv,62,[2],vii,[1], with port…

Specimens of the British Poets; with Biographical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English Poetry in Seven Volumes

Thomas Campbell [Editor] · 1819 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London , John Murray, 1819. Leather. An attractive set of this collection of British poetry, edited by Thomas Campbell. Complete in seven volumes. Volume I contains an essay on English poetry. The remaining volumes contain biographical and critical notes of the most prominent Br…

The French Romantics: Literature and the Visual Arts, 1800-1840

Wakefield, David · 2007 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

London, Chaucer Press, 2007. Hardcover. A gray hardcover book with the title in gilt on the front cover and down the spine. There is a pictorial dust jacket, with the title printed in black down a periwinkle spine. There is a black and white headband. The front and back free and…