Fabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth centuries, Selected and Translated into English Verse with a preface and notes, in 2 volumes, complete contemporary red marbled endpapers

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MA Date Published 1940 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description A fine copy in an attractive cloth binding

Publisher published by the author Publisher Place Farnborough

’  The contests between rival factions in the sea are amusingly drawn in the lines relating to the Lobster

Fabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth centuries, Selected and Translated into English Verse with a preface and notes, in 2 volumes, complete contemporary red marbled endpapersPp. xxxvii, (4), B2, 4 280; (6), B2, 4 340; with 52 woodcut vignettes in the text by John and Thomas Bewick, Charlton Nesbit, and Luke Clennell. Publishers original black morocco leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment and with elaborate gilt floral decorations in the other compartments, front and rear covers with gilt border decorations, decorated board edges and gilt turns, marbled endpapers, all page edges in