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 No other ownership marks and

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Switzerland Date Published 1993 Date Published Estimated No Edition First Number of Volumes Reprint No Condition Fine Condition Description Small bump to one outer corner

Publisher published by the author Publisher Place Farnborough

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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 No other ownership marks andPp. 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