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Andy Grundberg
Crisis of the Real : Writings on Photography 1974-1989
Hardcover, 258 pages, ENG, 245 x 170 mm, dustjacket, grey linen with silver imprint, book is in very good condition, with images in b/w . ISBN 9780893814007. Articles argue that photography has changed perceptions of the relationship of art and life and discuss the works of individual photographers...... His interpretations and critical views have helped shape a broad understanding of photography's complex roles in art and in the media. This volume is the first compilation of his work.
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Max Porter
death of Francis Bacon
Hardcover, 74 pages , ENG, 185 x 115 mm, New condition, dustjacket, . ISBN 9780571366514. Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.
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Marius de Zayas, Francis M. Naumann
How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York
Hardcover, 260 pages, ENG, 235 x 190 mm, dustjacket, as good as new !, black linen with red imprint, illustrated in b/w. ISBN 9780262041539. Marius de Zayas (1880-1961), a Mexican artist and writer whose caricatures of New York's theatre, dance and social elite brought him to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and his circle at "291", was among the most effective propagandists of modern art during the early years of the 20th century. His writings were the first to provide the American public with an intellectual basis upon which to understand and eventually appreciate the newest artistic developments. "How, When and Why Modern Art Came to New York", originally written in the late 1940s, is a chronicle assembled from de Zaya's personal archive of photographs and from newspaper reviews of the exhibitions he discusses, beginning with those held at the Stieglitz gallery and including important shows mounted in his own galleries: The Modern Gallery (1915-1918) and The de Zayas Gallery (1919-1921).;An appendix added by the editor provides detailed information on the various exhibitions. Additional appendixes contain transcriptions of the de Zayas and Stieglitz correspondence, as well as an account of de Zayas's unique relationship with Picasso, a Spaniard with whom he felt a special kinship and whose work he would be among the first in America to promote and defend.;Among the press reviews included here are many important documents coming to light for the first time since their original publication. Moreover, the photographs de Zayas selected specify which works were shown in the exhibitions he discusses (as opposed to vague titles in catalogue listings), and many of the photographs illustrate works that have been lost or destroyed since they were first shown.
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Murray Roston
Renaissance Perspectives : in Literature and the Visual Arts
Hardcover, 380 pages, ENG, 260 x 200 x 30 mm, dustjacket, in very good condition, black linen with silver imprint, illustrations in b/w. ISBN 9780691066837. Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts and the artistic works the insights such comparison offers.
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Avedis Krikor Sanjian
Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States ENG / ARM
Paperback, 863 pages, ENG / ARM(enian), 260 x 170 x 60 mm, in reasonable condition, . ISBN 9780520095052. University of California Press, 1976-01-01. Paperback. Good. Berkeley, 1976; English and Armenian text; green paper covers; cover edges and spine faded; mild edge wear; corners bumped; bottom corner of front cover creased; large scuff on spine; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 863 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
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Walter F. Friedlaender
David to Delacroix
Paperback, 136 pages, ENG, 225 x 155 mm, in good condition, however, someone made pencil remarks, better that than with a pen, 83 ill. in b/w. ISBN 9780674194014. This renowned study follows the evolution of French painting from the Revolution through the Napoleonic era. Beginning with David's revolutionary classicism, Friedlaender scrutinizes the work of early-nineteenth-century artists against the background of their times. He reveals the baroque tendencies diffused into the art of Prudhon and the same predisposition, mixed with a strong realism, in the work of Géricault. Two distinct trends appear, deriving from Pussin and Rubens. The author follows the styles as they mature, and represents their consumation in two great masters?the refined and abstract classicism of Ingres and the baroque of Delacroix with its flamboyant colorism and exotic subjects.
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John Berger ; Tom Overton
Portraits : John Berger on Artists
Hardcover, 512 pages, ENG, 240 x 160 x 50 mm, as new, in perfect condition ! illustrations in b/w. ISBN 9781784781767. One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work. In his penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about art history, and artists both canonized and obscure,from Rembrandt, to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. A beautifully illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.
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Richard Shone ; Molly Sisley ; Jane Shone
Sisley
Softcover, 240 pages, Texte en Francais, Tres belle exemplaire, 290 x 250 x 22 mm, illustrations en couleur / n/b. ISBN 9780714894119. Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) fut l'un des plus grands peintres de paysages du XIXe siècle et l'un des chefs de file du mouvement impressionniste. Cette monographie détaillée fournit des informations inédites sur sa vie et son oeuvre. Accompagné de nombreuses reproductions de ses peintures, le texte révèle l'?uvre d'un artiste original à la puissance indéniable. Sisley a consacré toute sa production aux paysages. Ses célèbres peintures des villes de la banlieue parisienne sous la neige, des inondations de la Seine à Port-Marly ou des régates sur la Tamise sont remarquables par l'équilibre des tons et l'atmosphère poétique qui s'en dégage, en même temps que par la description précise des sujets représentés. Le critique Kenneth Clark considère d'ailleurs la série des peintures de la Tamise comme l'un des " moments parfaits de l'impressionnisme ". Pourtant, comme le dit de lui son ami Arsène Alexandre : " Sisley a vécu fier et est mort pauvre. " L'?uvre de Sisley n'a été pleinement reconnue qu'après sa mort prématurée et reste encore de nos jours injustement méconnue. Dans cette monographie, Richard Shone, s'appuyant sur sa connaissance de l'Ile-de-France, apporte un nouveau regard et analyse les différentes phases du travail de Sisley. Ses recherches ont mis à jour certains aspects de la vie de l'artiste : sa nationalité anglaise, le début de sa carrière, son combat pour gagner sa vie, l'isolement des dernières années. La vie privée de Sisley apporte en effet un éclairage particulier sur son évolution artistique. Richement illustré, cet ouvrage présente notamment d'importantes séries de peintures jamais publiées auparavant ensemble en aussi grand nombre-les inondations, les paysages sous la neige, l'église de Moret-sur-Loing et la côte galloise. Cet ouvrage propose l'image d'un peintre qui s'est constamment renouvelé, s'est ouvert aux influences et a offert une vision personnelle de la campagne française, aussi forte et séduisante que celle des autres impressionnistes. Le livre de Richard Shone confirme la justesse du jugement de Pissarro pour qui Sisley était " un grand et magnifique artiste ".
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Kenneth McConkey ; Jo Johnson
British Impressionism
Hardcover, 160 pages, ENG, 285 x 250 x 25 mm, dustjacket, book is in fine condition, 132 illustrations of which 72 in colour. ISBN 9780714825212. British Impressionism (1880-1910) was a direct and spontaneous period of British art, when artists were concerned with painting the effects of light.
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Peter Robb
M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Hardcover, 571 pages, ENG, 240 x 170 x 48 mm, dustjacket, in very good condition, with some b/w illustrations, red/black linen with golden imprint, . ISBN 9780805063561. The short, violent life of Michelangelo Merisi -- sometimes called simply M, and known to us as Caravaggio -- changed art forever. In the words of Robert Hughes, 'There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same.' M threw out accepted technique and dogma to paint from life with dazzling clarity. In the process he laid bare his own sexual longings and the brutal realities of life with shocking frankness. M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio is strikingly different from the usual artist's life: The Times Literary Supplement writes, 'Its hero is wholly, richly alive.' With 'tremendous vigor, dash and swagger' Peter Robb evokes the seething and dangerous world of Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. Caravaggio is seen as a provocateur to a culture riven by the Inquisition and the Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological cold war against which, despite all odds and at great cost to their creators, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. M was imprisoned for criminal libel and saw his work rejected by Roman churches. A savage street fight nearly killed him and left his enemy bleeding to death. Later, with a price on his head, Caravaggio fled south to Naples and beyond, where he experienced four years of creative triumph and personal catastrophe. After being jailed in Malta for an unnamed crime, and pursued by killers through Sicily and Naples, he disappeared in the summer of 1610. Refuting standard accounts, Robb presents Caravaggio's death in a gripping scenario of sexual vendetta, betrayal, ambush and state collusion -- a startling conclusion to a groundbreaking book.
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Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Hardcover, 934 pages, ENG, 240 x 175 x 55 mm, dustjacket ( looks terrible) book itself is in very good condition, illustrations in b/w, white cloth with golden imprint,. ISBN 9780712638661. Attempts to reveal the life behind the paintings, from New York during the Depression to his last years with Lee Krasner. This biography tells of Pollock's disjointed childhood, and of sibling rivalry, sexual ambiguity and the artistic frustration out of which the man and the artist developed.
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Beth Irwin Lewis
George Grosz: art and politics in the Weimar Republic
Hardcover, 328 pages, ENG, 240 x 165 x 25 mm, in very good condition, no dustjacket / cover, illustrated in b/w. ISBN 9780299059019. George Grosz (German: born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 - July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He immigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died shortly afterwards.
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Terry Eagleton
Criticism and Ideology : A Study in Marxist Literary Theory
Paperback, 191 pages, ENG, 215 x 135 mm, in good condition, . ISBN 9781859842171. Terry Eagleton is one of the most important - and most radical - theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism. In this new edition of his groundbreaking treatise on literary theory, Eagleton seeks to develop a sophisticated relationship between Marxism and literary criticism. Ranging across the key works of Raymond Williams, Lenin, Trostsky, Brecht, Adorno, Benjamin, Lukacs and Sartre, he develops a nuanced critique of traditional literary criticism, while producing a compelling theoretical account of ideology. Eagleton uses this perspective to offer fascinating analyses of canonical writers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence. However, he distances himself from a simplistic application of Marxist categories and shows how ideology can play a productive and subversive role in their work.
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Thomas Cleary
Essential Confucius
Paperback, 179 pages, ENG, 210 x 135 mm, in good condition, . ISBN 9780062502155. A deluxe paperback edition: Thomas Cleary's brilliant translation of the sayings of Confucius presented in the order of the 64 classic I Ching hexagrams.
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Mertens, Phil / Ford, Jacqueline
VIEWPOINT : Hedendaagse Britse Kunst / L'art Contemporain En Grande-Bretagne 18.12.87 / 31.01.88
Paperback, 144 pages, NL / FR, 295 x 210 mm, illustr. in colour / b/w, in goede staat, . Artists : John Davies Richard Deacon Ian Hamilton Finlay Antony Gormley Anish Kapoor Christopher Le Brun Stephen McKenna Bruce McLean Alison Wilding
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David Hockney, Didier Ottinger, Kay Heymer
David Hockney : Espace/Paysage
Paperback, 227 pages, Texte en Francais , Tres belle exemplaire, 290 x 255 x 22 mm, illustrations en couleur / n/b. ISBN 9782844260154. A presentation of landscape painting, from the 1960s to the 1990s, by David Hockney. Three major groups make up his work: hyperrealism from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s; the illusionist treatment of space and the multiplication of points of view with the contribution of photography; the introduction of the abstract.
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Beerbohm, Max
Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet
Portfolio. 41 x 29.5cm. Number 193 of an edition of 900 copies. Mounted facsimile manuscript note by Max Beerbohm and five mounted colour prints each in a separate folder. Caricatures of Peggy Wood, Noel Coward, Charles B. Cochran, Ivy St. Helier and Georges Metaxa.
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Richard Dorment, Margaret MacDonald, Nicolai Cikovsky
James McNeill Whistler
Paperback, 335 pages, ENG, 300 x 235 mm, in good condition, illustr. in colour / b/w. ISBN 9781854371454.
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LE BAUT L.
Fluent english. Baccalaur?at 1e et 2e parties.
Reli?. 312 pages.
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BELJAME A.
First english reader. Premier livre de lectures anglaises (classes pr?paratoires).
Reli?. 154 pages.
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DEFOUR F. - LARREYA P. - LAVIGNE M. L.
English in action 1. Cours d'anglais pour les sections industrielles des coll?ges d'enseignement technique. B.E.P. premi?re ann?e. Illustrations de Alain Dufourcq.
Broch?. 127 pages.
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RADIO TELEVISION SCOLAIRE
Anglais classe de 6?me. Livret destin? aux ?l?ves.
Cartonn?. 316 pages.
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RICHARD P. M. - HALL Wendy
L'anglais par la litt?rature. Classe de 2e.
Cartonn?. 304 pages. 16 x 24 cm.
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Guillon (M.-N.-S.)
Histoire de la nouvelle hérésie du XIXe siècle, ou réfutation complète des ouvrages de l'abbé De La Mennais.
français In-8 de faux-titre, titre, 455 pp.; demi-basane marron, dos lisse à faux nerfs orné (reliure de l'époque). Coin supérieur du second plat très légèrement émoussé. Tome premier seul.
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Craik ( Mrs. )
John Halifax, Gentleman.
français London - Edinburgh - Paris - Toronto - New-York, Thomas Nelson & Sons LTD, sans date. Petit in-12 de (2) ff., 537 pp., (1) ff.; cartonnage de toile bleue de l'éditeur, sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs. Collection " The Nelson Classics," n°19. Texte en anglais. Bon exemplaire. Infimes usures à la jaquette.
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Dickens (Charles)
The PICKWICK PAPERS.
français T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd., sans date (1920). 2 vol. petit in-12 de (4) ff., 376 pp., (1) ff. et (4) ff., 470 pp., (1) ff.; cartonnage toilé rouge de l'éditeur, sous jaquette papier illustrée d'une vignette en couleurs. Nelson Classics. Bon exemplaire. Jaquettes usagées.
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Kallendorf, Craig
LATIN INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1945-1979
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else book is fine. ; Garland reference library of the humanities; 141 pages
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Schmidt, Michael
LIVES OF THE POETS
Very light shelfwear to book else fine. DJ has light shelfwear. ; A dazzling account of the entire history of poetry in the English language -- from the fourteenth century to the present -- by one of the most intelligent and passionate critics in the field. Setting out to write his own homage to Samuel Johnson's legendary Lives of the English Poets of more than two hundred years ago, Michael Schmidt introduces us to the world tradition of poets who have written in English. From the rustic rhythms of Piers Plowman to today's postmodernists, from fifteenth-century Scotland to the contemporary Caribbean, Schmidt explores the lives and creations of more than three hundred poets, discussing their best (and sometimes worst) poems, their triumphs and tragedies, their individual genius. Here is the shared universe and work of so many great poets, including Chaucer, Donne, Blake, Behn, Burns, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, Rossetti, Yeats, Stevens, Lowell, Bishop, Ginsberg, Rich and Heaney, to name but a few. Schmidt also embraces the extraordinary poetry now emerging from Australia, New Zealand, India and other countries, and shows how these varied landscapes and cultures make their contributions to our common language. Tracing the themes and achievements of each poet's work, Schmidt demonstrates with wit and erudition how poets overshadow and inspire one another across the centuries. En route, he champions some unjustly neglected voices and outlines the ways in which history and politics intervene to shape (or sometimes misshape) the poetic imagination. With infectious enthusiasm and avoiding all fashionable jargon, Schmidt speaks unapologetically for a common language -- the language of poetry, which unites people across continents and across the ages. For anyone who has ever been moved by a poem, a rich and important book. ; 992 pages
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Drabble, Margaret (Ed. )
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE
Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. DJ has a bit of edgewear with light creasing. ; 1155 pages
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Davenport, William H. & Ben Siegel (Eds. )
BIOGRAPHY PAST AND PRESENT Selections and Critical Essays
A couple of institution stamps. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Creasing to spine with a bit of chipping. Some edgewear to wraps. ; 472 pages
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Thwaite, Anthony
BEYOND THE INHABITED WORLD Roman Britain
Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else book is fine. DJ has some edgewear with a few small tears. ; A Clarion Book; 125 pages
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Thompson, Craig R.
UNIVERSITIES IN TUDOR ENGLAND
Small sticker damaged area to rear wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; Folger Guides to the Age of Shakespeare; 45 pages
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Lucas, Peter J. (Ed. )
JOHN CAPGRAVE'S ABBREUIACION OF CRONICLES
Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 285; 518 pages
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Gradon, Pamela & (Dan Michel)
DAN MICHEL'S AYENBITE OF INWYT Vol II: Introduction, Notes and Glossary
Very light shelfwear. Light knock to top of spine. ; The Ayenbite of Inwyt (literally Prick (or Remorse) of Conscience) is a confessional prose work written in a Kentish dialect of Middle English. ; Early English Text Society No. 278; Vol. 2; 338 pages
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Hudson, Anne (Ed. )
TWO WYCLIFFITE TEXTS The Sermon of William Taylor 1406, Testimony of William Thorpe 1407
Lxiii, 182 pp ; Early English Text Society No. 301; 245 pages; These two texts set out the views of two followers of the heretic John Wyclif in the years 1406-07. The first, a sermon by William Taylor, caused a scandal in London when it was preached. The second, an account of the conversations between William Thorpe and Archbishop Arundel, sets out clearly many points concerning the history and views of the heretics between the 1380s and 1407.
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Ayto, John & Alexandra Barratt (Eds)
AELRED OF RIEVAULX'S DE INSTITUTIONE INCLUSARUM Two English Versions
Early English Text Society No. 287; 233 pages; Two English versions of Aelred of Rievaulx's treatise on the ordering of the external and inner life of an anchoress, De Instututione Inclusarum, edited by John Ayto and Alexandra Barratt; includes critical introduction, select bibliography, note on the texts, notes, glossary.
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Trigg, Stephanie (ed.)
WYNNERE AND WASTOURE
Early English Text Society No. 297; 128 pages; This edition of the fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem Wynnere and Wastoure provides a highly useful introduction to the manuscript discussing in detail its date, provenance, and metre. In addition, it offers a concise summary, criticism, a bibliography, a commentary, glossary, and an index of names.
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Wirtjes, Hanneke (Ed. )
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PHYSIOLOGUS
Early English Text Society No. 299; 160 pages; This book is the first separate critical edition of the Middle English Physiologus from its sole surviving manuscript, with apparatus, commentary, glossary, and introduction.
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Baker, Donald C. & John L. Murphy & Louis B. Hall Jr.
THE LATE MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS PLAYS [THE DIGBY PLAYS] Of Bodleian MSS Digby 133 and E Museo 160
Light bumping to bottom corners else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 283; 394 pages; Once owned by the Catholic and Royalist bibliophile Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665) , this manuscript was among those Digby gave to Oxford University's Bodleian Library in 1634. Hence Bodleian Library MS Digby 133 lends its name to an eclectic group of religious plays that makes up one of two important late medieval dramatic anthologies (the other is the Macro Plays).
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Blayney, M S
A FAMILIAR DIALOGUE OF THE FRIEND AND THE FELLOW
Early English Text Society No. 295; 68 pages; This is a new critical edition of A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and the Felaw, a late 15th-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis (c. 1425) by Alain Chartier. The prose work forcefully laments the ruinous conditions in France brought about by the corruption and vices of the rulers, army, and common people in the early 15th century.
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Cigman, Gloria (Ed. )
LOLLARD SERMONS British Library MS Additional 41321, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C 751, John Rylands Library MS Eng 412. Description of the Manuscripts by Jeremy Griffiths ; Analysis of the Language by Jeremy Smith.
Early English Text Society No. 294; 392 pages; This book brings together a wide range of late Middle English sermons distinctively "Lollard" in their intense preoccupation with the role of the preacher and the exposition of the scriptures. The work encompasses sixteen gospel sermons, an optional expansion, and the Sermon of Dead Men--a funeral sermon with a lengthy discourse on the Four Last Things (Death, Judgement, the Pains of Hell, and the Joys of Heaven)--in addition to introductory sections, a glossary, notes, and a two-part Index of Scriptural Texts, one sermon-by-sermon, the other alphabetical.
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McSparran, Frances
OCTOVIAN [octavian] Edited from Lincoln, Dean and Chapter Library, MS 91 and Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.2. 38
Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 289; 244 pages; 14th-century Middle English verse translation and abridgement of a mid-13th century Old French romance of the same name. [1] This Middle English version exists in three manuscript copies and in two separate compositions, one of which may have been written by the 14th century poet Thomas Chestre who also composed Libeaus Desconus and Sir Launfal. The story describes a trauma that unfolds in the household of Octavian, later the Roman Emperor Augustus, whose own mother deceives him into sending his wife and his two new-born sons into exile and likely death. After many adventures, the family are at last reunited and the guilty mother-in-law appropriately punished.
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Richardsons, Frances E. (Ed. )
SIR EGLAMOUR OF ARTOIS
Scholar's name to ffep (P. H. Salus). Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; One of the most popular late medieval romances. ; Early English Text Society No. 256; 206 pages
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Hanna, Ralph & David Lawton (Ed. )
THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM
Very light creasing/edgewear along top edge of DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 320; 324 pages; The historical romance of The Siege of Jerusalem was the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poem in the medieval period apart from Piers Plowman. It was previously edited for the Society by Eugen Kölbing and Mabel Day (O. S. 188 (1932). This new edition offers a critical text based upon all the surviving manuscripts, some unavailable to Kölbing and Day. All extant manuscripts are fully described, and the editors discuss the sources and authorship, as well as the editorial methods best suited for presenting this text, which survives in many copies.
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Barratt, Alexandra (Ed. ) & (Dame Eleanor Hull)
THE SEVEN PSALMS: A COMMENTARY ON THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS Translated from French Into English by Dame Eleanor Hull
Very light bump to top of spine else Fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; Early English Text Society No. 307; 368 pages; This is the first edition of a translation into English of an Old French Commentary on the Penitential Psalms, made in the fifteenth century by Dame Eleanor Hull, wife of Sir John Hull, a retainer of John of Gaunt. Eleanor Hull was a devout laywoman, lady-in-waiting to the second wife of Henry IV, who spent some of her life in Sopwell Priory, a house of Benedictine nuns attached to St. Albans Abbey. She is the first woman to have made translations into English whose name is known, and about whom there is any information. In addition to the commentary on the penitential psalms, she translated a collection of prayers and meditations. Dame Hull is a significant figure in English literary history, who has remained virtually unknown until now.
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Morrall, E. J. (Ed. )
AENEAS SILVIUS PICCOLOMINI (PIUS II) The Goodli History of the Ladye Lucres of Scene and of Her Lover Eurialus
Early English Text Society No. 308; 118 pages; This is a critical edition of the sixteenth-century translation into English of the Latin novella, the Historia de Duobus Amantibus, by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini. The work, which was previously only accessible in an old and rare diplomatic reprint, demonstrates clearly the full impact of Italian Renaissance learning on English prose fiction.
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Blayney, Margaret S. (Ed. )
FIFTEENTH CENTURY TRANSLATIONS OF ALAIN CHARTIER'S LE TRAITÉ DE L'ESPERANCE AND LE QUADRILOGUE INVECTIF [TWO VOLUME SET] Volume I: Text & Volume II: Introduction, Notes and Glossary
Vol. I: book has Bump to base of spine NF. DJ spine is lightly discolored with rubbing (with colour loss) VG. Vol; Vol I: 1973, 264 pp ISBN: 019722722; Vol II: 1980, 260 pp ISBN: 0197222838 ; Early English Text Society No. 270 & No. 281; Three Fifteenth-century English translations of the prose works of Alain Chartier honoured by the rhetoricians as the 'father of French eloquence' are edited here for the first time.
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Whitelock, Jill (Ed. )
THE SEVEN SAGES OF ROME (MIDLAND VERSION) Edited from Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.I.17
Very light shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 324; 266 pages; This is a new edition of an independent Middle English version of an enormously popular story collection, found in almost all European languages. This version was previously edited by Thomas Wright in 1845, but is not otherwise available. The new edition presents a corrected text with full introduction and commentary. The Seven Sages is the first framed story in English, and was known to Chaucer and Gower, among others.
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Shepherd, Stephen H. A. (Ed. )
TURPINES STORY A Middle English Translation of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle
Early English Text Society No. 322; 169 pages; This unique Middle English text, not previously published, of the immensely popular story of Charlemagne's Spanish wars and defeat at Roncevaux, has only recently been discovered. It is one of the earliest prose romances, pre-dating Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Artur by more than a decade. This version testifies to a distinctive British tradition of the Charlemagne story. The manuscript's history locates the text in Lancastrian and regional politics of the mid-fifteenth century.
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Bühler, Curt F (Ed. )
THE EPISTLE OF OTHEA Translated from the French Text of Christine De Pisan by Stephen Scrope
Hard bump to front bottom corner that has extended to first few pages. DJ has some edgewear with a couple of small closed tears. DJ has rubbing in places (with some colour loss). ; Early English Text Society No. 264; 273 pages
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