Charpentier

1990 · réf. 932T21 — Leiden: E. J. Brill 1990. Cloth. Near Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". None. A smart copy of this scarce collection of romantic poetry with essays on their sources and influences. Scarce work. A collection of love poetry including Christine de Pizan's 'Epistre au dieu d'Amours' and 'Dit de la Rose' as well as Thomas Hoccleve's 'The Letter of Cupid'. With George Sewell's 'The Proclamation of Cupid'. With commentary on the Latin sources and influences manuscripts language and versification editions and translations textual notes and more. Edited by Thelma S. Fenster an American professor emerita of French and medieval studies at Fordham University and Mary Carpenter Erler an American literary scholar specialising in medieval and early modern English literature and printing specialising in women's reading and book-ownership in the same periods. In the original full cloth binding. Externally very smart with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small mark. Near Fine E. J. Brill hardcover